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Amazon To Offer Sneakernet Services: Data Upload By Mail

Posted by timothy on from the those-are-some-big-sneakers dept.

blueshift_1 writes: If you have 50TB of data that you'd like to put on the S3 cloud, Amazon is releasing Snowball. It's basically a large grey box full of hard drives that Amazon will mail to you. Simply upload your files and mail it back — they will upload it for you. For $200 + shipping, it's at a pretty reasonable price point if you're tired of hosting your data and want to try and push that to AWS. ("Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -Tanenbaum, Andrew S.)

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  1. Not gonna happen by garryknight · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you have 50TB of data that you'd like to put on the S3 cloud, Amazon is releasing Snowball.

    I don't, therefore it isn't.

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    Garry Knight
  2. Re:A perfect example of why tech is cyclical.... by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    At the opposite end of the scale, I have been unable to persuade any of my pigeons to take off with an LTO tape attached to their legs.

    Has anyone else succeeded with this?

    Try disguising it as a coconut. Works better with swallows, however.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  3. Re:It's been available for a while by willworkforbeer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, and those disks make a detour to the NSA on their way to Amazon. Very convenient, indeed.

    It was the shipping via Black Helicopter Express that gave it away.

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    Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..