From: Randy 

John Beamish wrote:
> 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!)
>
>

These days, it's Never Underestimate the bandwith of an A380 loaded with
  8 GB SD HC cards....

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