I’m sorry for those HDDs
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idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not the original author:
Trebuchets are the most technologically advanced siege engines of all time, and are capable of hurling a 90kg stone over 300m using a counterweight.
With this in mind, we can perform the following calculations:
A 22TB WD Red Pro drive weighs 670g, with a maximum hurl weight of 90kg, trebuchet can hurl 134 drives at once, totalling 2,948 TB of data.
The average speed of a trebuchet projectile is 54m/s and the average size of an American ‘block’ is 100m. Lets presume 3 blocks to get our full trebuchets use (fuck you catapults).
It’ll take 5.5 seconds for the projectile to go from launch to dramatic landing, meaning a throughput of 536TB a second.
Therefore, trebuchets are the best transfer method.
starman@programming.dev 1 year ago
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
If you use Western Digital, the HDDs won’t notice the extreme transfer method. They’ll be unreadable either way
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
At this point why not get a 30 ton truck to carry all those WD Red Pros? Sure you can only go 5.4 m/s but the carrying capacity is much greater!
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 1 year ago
techcrunch.com/…/amazon-will-truck-your-massive-p…
100 petabytes in a truck from 2016
x4740N@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In a real world scenario this would need to account for protection to the storage devices to prevent damage and potential loss of data from damage
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All of these methods have extreme bandwidth but terrible latency and packet loss.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just use half the bandwidth for redundancy.
Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You’ve heard of RAID but have you ever tried SEIGE?