Comment on Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet

Bobert@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Interestingly enough NASA still sends data this way. Huge HDD delivered by hand. Not all data, but I remember reading about some satellite images and similar data where latency doesn’t matter. Can’t beat good old box full of HDD.

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  • smitty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yep, radio telescopes send data this way, thats how SETI@home got the Arecibo data

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  • glorious_albus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wondered why NASA was using pigeons till I read the rest of your comment.

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was 10 years ago so I don’t know what is the practice now but the “offsite backup” solution in my office was taking a hard drive to a safe at the local bank.

    Every week someone would go to the bank to switch the drive that is stored there.

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• jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  AWS offers a semi truck with a shipping container full of hard drives for large data transfers

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  • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Huh, I fully expected the link to be a hard drive article

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  youtu.be/a6y8cqayjQI

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