Amazon To Offer Sneakernet Services: Data Upload By Mail

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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Re:Theft waiting to happen

[CSMoran]

I can't understand [...]

And that should be your cue not to post, and think for a moment. If you have sensitive data, you use encryption.