Mailing Disks is Faster than Uploading Data

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 10, 2003 @12:27PM from the data-access-versus-data-excess dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Who would ever, in this time of the greatest interconnectivity in human history, go back to shipping bytes around via snail mail as a preferred means of data transfer? Jim Gray would do it, that's who. And we're not just talking about Zip disks, no sir. We're talking about shipping entire hard drives, or even complete computer systems, packed full of disks. David Patterson (one of the developers of both RISC and RAID) interviews ACM Turing Award winner Jim Gray." Back in school we always had a saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes." Seems like that still holds true.

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Only on Slashdot by agent+dero · 2003-07-10 12:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This must be a real slow news day.

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Re:The bandwith is there, you just can't have it. by AceM2 · 2003-07-10 13:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Clinton got a BJ and Bush lies to Congress and the American people.. who gets treated worse?

Clinton lied to Congress and the American people as well..

To answer your question though.. I would say Bush. ;P Clinton got a blowjob, got re-elected, and has made millions of dollars since leaving office.