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Reminds me of the joke about the highest bandwidth available being a truckload of drives barreling down the highway. While true, not necessarily useful.



Certainly useful when you don't care about latency.

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/


In fact, it could be quite useful. I pay for a seedbox for my torrent downloading, and it would be great to be able to pay to have a hard drive from the seedbox shipped to me when I fill it up.


That's actually a bastardization of an Andrew Tanenbaum quote:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes"




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