> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes!
The exact quote [0] by Andrew Tanenbaum is: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.".
Obligatory xkcd [1].
I met Andy Tanenbaum in 2008 at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I was the Technology Evangelist for AWS in Europe, giving a seminar there on cloud computing.
I loved him. Funny, smart. I didn't even know he was American until I met him in person (having studied computer science, you're not exactly sure of someone's nationality solely based on his last name).
A 2020 update for that would probably use 256 or 512GB cards resulting in around 4.4 or 8.8EB (And probably twice that again if the cargo capacity of a typical 2020 SUV equivalent of a 1985 Volvo is assumed...)
The exact quote [0] by Andrew Tanenbaum is: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.".
Obligatory xkcd [1].
I met Andy Tanenbaum in 2008 at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I was the Technology Evangelist for AWS in Europe, giving a seminar there on cloud computing.
I loved him. Funny, smart. I didn't even know he was American until I met him in person (having studied computer science, you're not exactly sure of someone's nationality solely based on his last name).
[0]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
[1]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/