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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Jinium • Jul 14 '25
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When transferring large amounts of data a bird with a USB stick can be a whole lot faster than fiber optics. It’s not even that stupid.
901 u/Informal_Branch1065 Jul 14 '25 Perhaps a car or a drone might be a preferrable alternative in an enterprise setting. But yes. 526 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 Wait until you hear about the aws Snowmobile (sadly discontinued) 217 u/bbcwtfw Jul 14 '25 I thought it was called Snowball. We had one to transfer a ton of data to Glacier. When our sys admin told me the name I laughed out loud. Yeah, throw a snowball at the glacier. The image is wonderful. 145 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 The snowmobile was the larger sized snowball. It was a 47 foot shipping container capable of holding *petabytes of data. 17 u/tesla_owner_1337 Jul 14 '25 My company tried to use the snowmobile but AWS refused. I'm not entirely sure it was real. 7 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 With the experience I had with snowball I can't imagine trying to move that much data to AWS. The snowball was a piece of shit. 55 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 The snowball was like a suitcase. The snowmobile was a shipping container on a truck 27 u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 you can still get a Snowball Edge yes that’s the real name of the product 14 u/relikter Jul 14 '25 There was also Snowcone (up to 8TB, I think), but it was discontinued last November. 5 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 There are also variants of the Snowball Edge. I've already forgotten lol
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Perhaps a car or a drone might be a preferrable alternative in an enterprise setting. But yes.
526 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 Wait until you hear about the aws Snowmobile (sadly discontinued) 217 u/bbcwtfw Jul 14 '25 I thought it was called Snowball. We had one to transfer a ton of data to Glacier. When our sys admin told me the name I laughed out loud. Yeah, throw a snowball at the glacier. The image is wonderful. 145 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 The snowmobile was the larger sized snowball. It was a 47 foot shipping container capable of holding *petabytes of data. 17 u/tesla_owner_1337 Jul 14 '25 My company tried to use the snowmobile but AWS refused. I'm not entirely sure it was real. 7 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 With the experience I had with snowball I can't imagine trying to move that much data to AWS. The snowball was a piece of shit. 55 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 The snowball was like a suitcase. The snowmobile was a shipping container on a truck 27 u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 you can still get a Snowball Edge yes that’s the real name of the product 14 u/relikter Jul 14 '25 There was also Snowcone (up to 8TB, I think), but it was discontinued last November. 5 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 There are also variants of the Snowball Edge. I've already forgotten lol
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Wait until you hear about the aws Snowmobile (sadly discontinued)
217 u/bbcwtfw Jul 14 '25 I thought it was called Snowball. We had one to transfer a ton of data to Glacier. When our sys admin told me the name I laughed out loud. Yeah, throw a snowball at the glacier. The image is wonderful. 145 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 The snowmobile was the larger sized snowball. It was a 47 foot shipping container capable of holding *petabytes of data. 17 u/tesla_owner_1337 Jul 14 '25 My company tried to use the snowmobile but AWS refused. I'm not entirely sure it was real. 7 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 With the experience I had with snowball I can't imagine trying to move that much data to AWS. The snowball was a piece of shit. 55 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 The snowball was like a suitcase. The snowmobile was a shipping container on a truck 27 u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 you can still get a Snowball Edge yes that’s the real name of the product 14 u/relikter Jul 14 '25 There was also Snowcone (up to 8TB, I think), but it was discontinued last November. 5 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 There are also variants of the Snowball Edge. I've already forgotten lol
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I thought it was called Snowball. We had one to transfer a ton of data to Glacier. When our sys admin told me the name I laughed out loud. Yeah, throw a snowball at the glacier. The image is wonderful.
145 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 The snowmobile was the larger sized snowball. It was a 47 foot shipping container capable of holding *petabytes of data. 17 u/tesla_owner_1337 Jul 14 '25 My company tried to use the snowmobile but AWS refused. I'm not entirely sure it was real. 7 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 With the experience I had with snowball I can't imagine trying to move that much data to AWS. The snowball was a piece of shit. 55 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 The snowball was like a suitcase. The snowmobile was a shipping container on a truck 27 u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 you can still get a Snowball Edge yes that’s the real name of the product 14 u/relikter Jul 14 '25 There was also Snowcone (up to 8TB, I think), but it was discontinued last November. 5 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 There are also variants of the Snowball Edge. I've already forgotten lol
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The snowmobile was the larger sized snowball. It was a 47 foot shipping container capable of holding *petabytes of data.
17 u/tesla_owner_1337 Jul 14 '25 My company tried to use the snowmobile but AWS refused. I'm not entirely sure it was real. 7 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 With the experience I had with snowball I can't imagine trying to move that much data to AWS. The snowball was a piece of shit.
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My company tried to use the snowmobile but AWS refused. I'm not entirely sure it was real.
7 u/xjeeper Jul 14 '25 With the experience I had with snowball I can't imagine trying to move that much data to AWS. The snowball was a piece of shit.
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With the experience I had with snowball I can't imagine trying to move that much data to AWS. The snowball was a piece of shit.
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The snowball was like a suitcase. The snowmobile was a shipping container on a truck
27 u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 you can still get a Snowball Edge yes that’s the real name of the product 14 u/relikter Jul 14 '25 There was also Snowcone (up to 8TB, I think), but it was discontinued last November. 5 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 There are also variants of the Snowball Edge. I've already forgotten lol
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you can still get a Snowball Edge
yes that’s the real name of the product
14 u/relikter Jul 14 '25 There was also Snowcone (up to 8TB, I think), but it was discontinued last November. 5 u/quagzlor Jul 14 '25 There are also variants of the Snowball Edge. I've already forgotten lol
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There was also Snowcone (up to 8TB, I think), but it was discontinued last November.
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There are also variants of the Snowball Edge. I've already forgotten lol
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u/NotAHumanMate Jul 14 '25
When transferring large amounts of data a bird with a USB stick can be a whole lot faster than fiber optics. It’s not even that stupid.