24 Oct
2024
24 Oct
'24
5:35 p.m.
Thanks! Oh, heck, I forgot to compute the maximum bandwidth.
The bandwidth is linear with distance so I'll arbitrarily pick the
two ends of I-90 / I-94 in Montana (Sohon and Wibaux).
Google maps says that if you stay on the interstate, that's 10 h 8 min
(608 minutes or 63,480 seconds). So 6,806,392 TB / 63,480 seconds = 107.2
TB / s
= 878,354 Gbps (note bits not bytes). But then you have to put up with
20+ hour ping times...
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 4:59 PM Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 10/24/2024 5:47 PM, Joseph S. Barrera III via
cctalk wrote:
Nowadays, of course, it would be a Chevrolet Suburban full of 1 TB
micro-SDXC cards.
Micro-SD volume[1]: 21.5 mm × 20 mm × 1.4 mm = 0.000602 liters
Suburban cargo volume[2]: 144.7 cu ft = 4097.4477 liters
# TB = # cards = 4097.4477 / 0.000602 = 6,806,392 TB = 6.5 EB
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#Physical_size
[2] https://www.chevrolet.com/suvs/suburban
<chuckle/>
Thanks not only for the analogy update, but kudos for actually doing the
math.
tips hat
Jim