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Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Suburban Filled With MicroSD Cards

Posted by timothy on from the eggs-in-one-basket dept.

toygeek writes "If you've been in IT long enough, you're bound to have heard the phrase 'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes.' These days moving data has become so much easier; We've surpassed baud rates and are into Gbps fiber on the backbones, and even in some homes. So, what's the modern equivalent to this, and what does it take to make the OC fiber connections cringe? Follow along as we theoretically stuff MicroSD cards into a Chevy Suburban and see what happens, and take sneakernet to a whole new level."

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  1. The bandwidth of a human. by queazocotal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Swallowing capsules containing a terabyte (about 12mm in diameter, and 15mm long of microSDs) is quite plausible.
    You can easily swallow a hundred of these, and it'll come out over the next 2 days.
    100TB/2 days = 600 megabytes a second.

    1. Re:The bandwidth of a human. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Something something memory dump.

    2. Re: The bandwidth of a human. by davidbrit2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've got Crohn's disease, so my ping times are faster.

  2. Re:Common sense almost prevails by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Funny

    They got confused by microSD cards not being one millionth the size of an SD card. Damned misleading names.

  3. A 2014 suburban filled with SD cards by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Assuming 2500kg for the car, 0.0005kg per cards, $50000 for the car and $50 per card:

    Not only a bandwidth of 68Tbps, but a mass of 12 metric tons (4.8 empty cars).

    Also a market value of $0.96B, or the equivalent of 19,141 new cars, plus one car with a broken suspension.