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Well, just replace micro-SD card with HDDs and it is pretty much how it works in the real life for absolutely massive data sizes.

Also, packing it up "taking forever" is irrelevant, that's latency, not bandwidth.

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I tried setting that up, but now the trucker's union is refusing to talk to me, citing concerns that the platters will all spin up due to road vibration, derailing the truck in a ditch due to the cumulative gyroscopic forces.

They remain unconvinced that chatGPT has told me it "should be fine", and have inquired as to whether I don't have better things to do than trying to win increasingly obscure and contrived arguments on HN. Please advise.

AFAIK it's discontinued since, but AWS had a service where you could send data via a huge truck https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte... , it's absolutely not a fantasy.

Fascinating, I wasn't aware of that. They still offer an "AWS Snowball", which is 200 TB instead of 100 PB, but around the size of half a full size suitcase instead of a semi truck. You then ship that back and forth.

If you need 100 PB then moving 500 of those around seems a lot easier for everyone involved than managing a special snowflake truck.

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