Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew Tanenbaum
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Eyup, not sure why this blindingly obvious truth has to be rediscovered once in a while.
This is also how astronomers work, radiotelescopes produce terabytes of data per day (the LCH produces ~15PB/year) so sending that over the wire makes absolutely no sense. Instead, they ship external disks for smaller datasets[0] and for bigger ones some go as far as shipping complete NFS/CIFS servers[1].
[0] https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/evla/data-archive/data-s...
[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=864078 middle of the article