Reply to post: Re: Not just for the rich and famous..

Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

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Re: Not just for the rich and famous..

I read a nice version of sneakernet the other day, which I hadn't heard about. Apologies if others have.

Amazon have got a couple of articulated lorries full of hard drives. When someone wants to transfer obscene amounts of data to Amazon's cloud they drive over, hoover it all up and drive it back to one of their datacentres.

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