From: "John Beamish" 

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,73007-0.html

How do you get 120 terabytes of data -- the equivalent of 123,000 iPod
shuffles (roughly 30 million songs) -- from A to B? For the most part, the
old-fashioned way: via a sneakernet. It's not glamorous, but Google
engineers hope to at least end the arduous process of transferring massive
quantities of data -- which can literally take weeks to upload onto the
internet -- with something affectionately called "FedExNet" by
the scientists who use it.

Chris DiBona, the open-source program manager at Google, just returned late
last week from Washington, D.C., where he met with Hubble researchers at
the Space Telescope Science Institute to set the stage for what will be the
largest data transfer for the project ever: The near totality of all the
astronomical data and images that Hubble has ever collected -- about 120
terabytes.


(As my buddy Roy says:  never underestimate the bandwidth of a Mack truck!)

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