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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All of these methods have extreme bandwidth but terrible latency and packet loss.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Just use half the bandwidth for redundancy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

You've heard of RAID but have you ever tried SEIGE?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Poor HDDs

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

If you use Western Digital, the HDDs won't notice the extreme transfer method. They'll be unreadable either way

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Only download, no upload.. Dammit leechers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

At this point why not get a 30 ton truck to carry all those WD Red Pros? Sure you can only go 30 m/s but the carrying capacity is much greater!