To fill a SUV with tapes using a single drive will take about 12.8 years, and maybe another 12.8 years to read it back.
I'll take the 2000 hours (85 days or so) using a 100Gb fibre...
LOL yeah, of course, it's completely impractical, but really it's the same equation regardless of media, the practical limit is going to be how quickly you can read/write the media. You can swap the LTOs with hard drives (though probably can't take as many due to weight) if getting the data off the media faster is important, maybe you just plug them into a chassis on the other end that can use them directly, or even truck the entire chassis of storage in whatever form it's used in production. If you can provision the practical storage bandwidth on the fibre, then it's a wash, otherwise shipping it is going to win (though cost will likely push you to shipping way before you hit the practical limit). The bandwidth of the proverbial station wagon is still immense, even taking practical considerations into account.
Actually a surprising chunk of peering is only at 10G per link. The ISP I use has only got 320G aggregate across all links which isn't a lot in the scale of things and it only averages 100-200G. That has tens of thousands of leechers on it.
We're not talking about Internet, we're talking about private datacentre interconnect. You're certainly not going to run your PB storage migration over a 10Gb peering link and the Internet. I can't imagine any service provider that would be running lots of uncoloured 10G over dark fibre these days, it's too costly; for your 10G peerings it's either a leased wavelength or more usually just a patch cable within the data centre between cheap ports because you don't need more to that peer (with several peers / transit at the POP, and likely Nx100G to your core). As an SP, you're either leasing a wave on someone else's OTN or running your own WDM system that can carry at least 100Gb per pair ('cheap' bog standard systems do 40x10G, state of the art off the shelf systems do 12x100G or more). Of course there are small SPs that only ever lease 10G or even 1G waves/EPLs, but I thought we were discussing the capacity of the fibre not what a small business actually buys on it
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But better to boil the frog slowly. When I migrated 130TB over to S3 a couple of years back, we built a service abstraction over the SAN and S3 so it used S3 as read-write-through cache for the SAN. This allowed us to sling all the stuff up over a dedicated DirectConnect up to S3 over the space of a few months without introducing any link capacity problems or having to do any nasty switch overs.
Clever solution, I like it!
Whilst it's been fun discussing the merits and demerits of high-capacity microSD cards vs terabit fibre vs No 8 wire, I think we have lost sight of an important point.
Dave provides the world - us - with a fantastic meeting place to discuss our ideas, and he does it without any cost to us. I salute him, and also all those who work with him to make this wonderful place happen.
Thank you Dave.
+1000! I actually had to get work done this week