[Dclug] Copying large number of files

[Przemek Klosowski]

   On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 15:47, Alan McConnell <alan at patriot.net> wrote:
   >        What is now a joke was reality twenty years ago.   There was a

Dodge Sprinter cargo bay is 250 cu.ft, and a standard 5.25" drive
module is 162 x 146 x 39 mm. Say we fill it with 1.5TB magnetic disks,
and drive for a day:

You have: 1.5 TB 250ft3 / (162  146  39 mm3)/day
You want: Gbps
        * 1065.9085

I don't think anyone will be able to touch that, for a while. For comparison:

OC-192 / STM-64x  : 10Gbps; backbones of large ISPs, current state-of-the-art
OC-768 / STM-256x : 40Gbps; recently announced
OC-1536		  : 80Gbps; IEEE 100 Gbps study group 
OC-3072		  : 160Gbps; sparkle in the milkman's eye