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Still doesn't beat the transfer speed of a jumbo jet full of data tapes.

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How about the Emma Marsk loaded with SSD drives?

As long as the driver doesn’t jam it in the Suez, Ever Given style.

Careful, or the networking protocol might jam ever smaller boats in behind it.

It might have higher bandwith than the total bandwith of the internet.

What if we special built a space vehicle to hold as many MicroSD-style flash memory chips as we could and blast it off at Voyager speeds?

Nope.... SSDs aren't going to retain data for decades, especially with all of the radiation spewing around outside the protection of mother Earth.

The gold record will last way, way longer, as it's low density data, thus fairly redundant, and you could work around any micrometeorite holes.

You're right, I didn't think of the radiation flipping bits\melting stuff, but we could shield it. And to be fair we're talking about going for the bandwidth world (uhh... universe) record, not the data-longevity record. Just make it last as far as Mars or something.

The 747-8F Freighter has PAYLOAD 140000 kg / 308647 lbs with CRUISE SPEED 901 kph / 559 mph with HOLD SIZE 5430x486x304 cm / 2137x191x119 in

A 12TB (uncompressed) Q2078A LTO-8 tape weighs 285.8g Depth: 111mm Height: 45.7mm Width: 113mm

An SSD has better data density. For example Samsung 990 Pro 4TB M.2 NVMe SSD: DIMENSION (WxHxD) 80 x 22 x 2.3 mm with WEIGHT Max 9.0g Weight

Highest density would be raw NAND flash chips: ICs would be ideal.

Maybe 12 inch wafers would be feasible but likely lower data density because flash chips are densely stacked within an IC.

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