toygeek writes “If you’ve been in IT long enough, you’re bound to have heard the phrase ‘Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes.’ These days moving data has become so much easier; We’ve surpassed baud rates and are into Gbps fiber on the backbones, and even in some homes. So, what’s the modern equivalent to this, and what does it take to make the OC fiber connections cringe? Follow along as we theoretically stuff MicroSD cards into a Chevy Suburban and see what happens, and take sneakernet to a whole new level.”… toygeek writes “If you’ve been in IT long enough, you’re bound to have heard the phrase ‘Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes.’ These days moving data has become so much easier; We’ve surpassed baud rates and are into Gbps fiber on the backbones, and even in some homes. So, what’s the modern equivalent to this, and what does it take to make the OC fiber connections cringe? Follow along as we theoretically stuff MicroSD cards into a Chevy Suburban and see what happens, and take sneakernet to a whole new level.”

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