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		icebraining on Feb 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When Movies Fly: How Modern Internet Experience Is... As fibre optics develops, so do storage device densities, though. You can now get a 3.5" drive with 8TBs, which would take 2+ hours to transmit at 1Gbps, even assuming perfect bandwidth utilization.

fulafel on Feb 5, 2016 [–]

1 Gbps is copper speeds from 10+ years ago though. Current fast last mile fiber would be 40g ethernet. Here's a NIC to go with that:http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/07/27/new-enhancements-boost-che...

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