I love how this is a literal trailer pulled by a truck - see the pictures at https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/.
I wish they gave more details as to what hardware was in there - are there any pictures of what the trailer looks like on the inside?
I wish they gave more details as to what hardware was in there - are there any pictures of what the trailer looks like on the inside?
Quite a dramatic illustration of the increase in data usage.
If one extrapolates next stop will be a train, and then a container ship full of hard drives.
Between that was FEDEX-ing a NAS. That's pretty much the standard data-exchange format in astronomy, so you have a fast link and don't need to bother plugging a bunch of drives in, just plug the NAS to the power and network and off you go.
So when will The Universe be too small to data considering data use is exponential.
I imagine there are lower upper limits, but this would be the upper upper limit.
It also appears that you never have access to the inside where the racks are. You can only access the last ~4 feet for power and data connections.