The quickest way to send 2.8 terrabytes of data

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:28:00 -0400
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Jim Gray, head of Microsoft’s Bay Area Research Center, calls his method TeraScale SneakerNet.

DP Are you sending them a whole PC?
JG Yes, an Athlon with a Gigabit Ethernet interface, a gigabyte of RAM, and seven 300-GB disks - all for about $3,000.

DP How do you get to the 7-megabytes-per-second figure?
JG UPS takes 24 hours, and 9 hours at each end to do the copy.