I just learned the AWS truck has been retired for months https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowm...
Like everything feels so simple and straightforward from afar but once I try to actually reason about something even the simplest of tasks feels complicated.
No, you don't put your own disks in the Snowmobile/Snowball/Snowclone. It contains disks, so when it arrives you connect it to your network and copy data onto it, and then it is driven to an Amazon datacentre.
See, e.g. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/developer-guide/...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-t...
And if there is an accident on the road, bad luck. /s