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Google's Next-Gen of Sneakernet

wired.com — How do you get 120 terabytes of data -- the equivalent of 123,000 iPod shuffles (roughly 30 million songs) -- from A to B? For the most part, the old-fashioned way: via a sneakernet.

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  • isewise, on 10/12/2007, -2/+131What is up with that picture!? Button your damn shirt!
    • clintonforbes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24He looks like a nerdy member of Manowar. Check out the hair!
    • Prysorra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Or a glam shot....
    • kevyn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12reminds me of david brent in the office (UK version) when he is posing for the camera on top of a table... very...erm...discusting
    • Condottieri, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Chris DiBona reminds me of Fabio on crack.
    • Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27It's so a Glamour Shot. He's even got the fan blowing his hair back.
    • EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15"Button your damn shirt!"

      Ever bit of my respect for Google is now gone. I've thrown up in my mouth. I'd better sign up for hotmail.
    • chetanw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yeah - couldn't he have given a better photo considering the publicity it was getting. Yuck!
    • RacerX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Wow, that is one of the most disturbing pictures I have ever seen. What's next the Patrick Norton and Leo Laporte centerfolds????
    • raynar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Haha...he looks like Fabio's fat brother, trying to sell "I can't believe its not butter"
    • thinkart, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4i laughed. yes, the photo is disturbing, but you remember it don't you?? have a sense of humor.
    • pegme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Not surprisingly, his blog is named "Ego Food"

      http://egofood.blogspot.com/
    • munkyxtc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeah, I saw the picture and said WTF; it's screaming glamour shots circa 1990
    • NeoCortex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18So iPod Shuffles are now a unit of measure? So we've gone from metric to Mactric.
    • OhhWell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7To me, the story is all about that god awful picture. Sure there's something about transporting hard drives with tons of data but damn... The headline should be Google buys out Glamor Shots; top execs given a makeover.
    • BZKyle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5/me is glad for Firefox's "block images from" option :)
    • neuroticus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1long haired hippie...
    • sirgolf82, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"Chris DiBona reminds me of Fabio on crack."

      More like Fatbio!
    • Arch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8He's too sexy for his shirt, so much it hurts.
    • dmerc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I thought the picture was awesome.
    • superpotential, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11ARGH, how many times do i have to repeat this to mac fanboys and Apple, Inc. themselves?

      Songs are NOT a unit of storage space!!!!!!!!!! Advertise a 1GB or a 2GB iPod. Don't say a 1,000 or a 2,000 song iPod (as they used to). Grr. You know, I have songs that are 80 minutes long. Can I sue Apple for not being able to fit 1,000 of them on my iPod?

      God damnit. Learn your units of measure.
    • blanski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I was going to read the article. Then the picture made me close the window.
    • dasilva333, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2dude looks like a lady ta da ta da
    • demonicume, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i'm not mad at him for posing for the shot. i'm mad at the photographer for shooting it and the editor that cleared it to be posted.
    • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1can someone photoshop/gimp some clothing on that guy
    • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1nevermind Ill just rtp it
    • MasterQ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1pics or... wait, ahhh it burns!
  • Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2My coworkers and I used to joke about a T1-pickup or an OC-192 freighter(basically a truck or boat full of harddrives). They stole the idea ;-)
    • aposter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As was said to me in about 1985, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon, but the latency sucks." We moved a datacenter frm Seattle to St. Louis by taking crates of tapes to the airport, flying them counter -to-counter freight, picking them up at Lambert and then loading them at the datacenter in St. Louis. We had a 2 hour window at the end where we moved the last days incremental backup files across a 56k leased circuit and we were up. We never could have done it with just telco bandwidth and not gone bankrupt.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
      - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4th Ed. p. 91
  • adragons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Not exactly genius - but a simple solution to a problem. Dugg.
    • himey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Never underestimate the bandwidth of an SUV full of tapes.
  • luvdownbabylon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11See, Google is actually collecting statistical data needed for their upcoming Universe simulation, where they will re-create the entire universe in holographic simulation. Reportedly, the simulations will be so realistic as to be indistinguishable from the actual universe. Some speculate that we are already living in a Googleverse, in a Googleverse, in a Googleverse, ad infinitum. Sort of a Russian Doll Reality Matrix. The true purpose of these simulations are not exactly clear, though it is suggested that Google are searching for the version of reality that would have negated the existence of Microsoft all together yet still allowed the creation of Google. Using facilities located conspicuously near powerplants, insiders say, Google has the technology to transport staff members through the space-time matrix to key points in the Motherverse (original universe), where critical manipulations can be made to bring about the "evil free" reality. The un-named sources deep inside Google say they want to expose what is going on because they are critical of Google's apparent fixation on the evils of Microsoft, while ignoring the greater evils of the world, such as the International Banking cartel. Supporters of Google's uber-secret schemes claim that fighting the root of all evil (creation of money) is a tough problem, because in every case it apparently negates Google's IPO success and collapses due to paradoxical instability. No word yet on Google's dark-fiber plans.

    : )
    Tim
  • drlha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14What you mean they don't load 123,000 iPod Shuffles onto a truck and move the data that way?
    • ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well, given their failure rate that's probably a good thing...
      http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/ipodfailures.html

      At a failure rate of 11.8% that could be pretty disastrous (14,514 out of 123,000). Though it would be pretty funny watching the technicians try to properly restore data stored in 1GB chunks :-P
    • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1custom made usb multiports and multiple giant usb holders filled with numerous ipod nanos
      carried by semi.......... and um plugged in like a cord
  • ampledismantle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Since when do we relate quantities of data to how many iPods it would take to hold it?
  • venuspcs, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Just plug my brain into a Firewire 10,000 port and download them all in 200 years then send me through a teleportation device that also transports me 400 years back in time with the hardware to upgrade the old computers so that I can transfer the data to the intended computer and have it done at the same time I started the download.
  • noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23No no no no no, this can't be right! I have it on good faith that the internet is not just a truck you can dump stuff in! What is google trying to do here upset the delicate balance of tubes?
    • onineko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's milk-out-the-nose worthy. Dugg.
  • Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives. :)
    • chedabob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I think that has been said about 5 times already...
  • venuspcs, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1FedEx needs to reroute the next FedExNet delivery my way for 24 hours so I can copy all that data to my new Gigaquad Thumb Drive I had surgically implanted in my penis.....complete with flip out USB 2.0 and Firewire 800 connectors.
    • deim0s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12While I was digging you down, I was thinking "wow, this comment is almost as retarded as that one a few up about the teleportation device". Then I realized you made them both.
  • WoollyMittens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Overnight delivery of 3 TB would get you about 34MBps :)
  • loves2spooge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Best part about the story is the love machine's pic... sex it on brother!
  • Lasereth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh man I just read this and hoped that someone would have made a comment about the pic. I'm proud of the dozen comments already posted about his glamour shot.
  • vw1972bug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm lovin the chest hair on that guy Chris DiBona, whats he got a fan blowing through his long luscious hair..a la Bon Jovi? Rock out dawg!

    ...nice
    • bronstad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2looks like one of the original members of the luxurious flowing hair club for scientists
  • Elohir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Live by the Google Search, die by the Google Image Search...

    http://www.perl.com/supersnail/os2002/images/small/os6_d4_4474_sm.jpg
  • techwrekfix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I could do without the " I'm trying to me sexy" picture of Chris DiBona.
  • sephiroth4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2In soviet russia....chris dibonas you

    ..........
  • shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, I love the Nuke Everything plugin in Firefox.
  • jschlach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I find it creepy that Google seems to want to own all content and media. Will scientific researchers be seeing advertising around their data in the future?
  • dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry, I couldn't even get started reading the article because I was distracted by Nerdowar's photo.

    "I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts."
  • apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"The equivilant of 123,000 ipod shuffles"

    Are you kidding me?! Nobody should ever, ever measure in ipod storage.That it the dumbest thing Ive read in a while. Im sorry but the apply fanboy in you has outgrown the geek in you. You should be ashamed! Steve would!
    • noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Why not?
    • truegodofwar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2True that, I am sick of hearing that x new drive holds 63,000 songs instead of so many GB. How the ***** is this relevant? Who is out there buying 500 gig hard drives so they can fill them up with 193,000 songs?
    • grve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ifags like to think everyone likes gaypple references
  • LGgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The photo gets all the attention instead of the project, problem with googlers is they believe their own PR.
  • illahtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed the picture more than the article...
  • zmigliozzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think I just threw up a little bit.
  • kylesherman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol...def a glam shot
    http://www.wired.com/ly/wired/news/images/full/dibona.jpg
  • xptweakerntn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome! I remember in my "Information Technology Foundations I (PC Repair) class, I learned about this, this was awesome.
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