[sengstrom]

The math for the time to transfer comparison is interesting:

"Even with high-speed Internet connections, it can take months to transfer large amounts of data. For example, 100 terabytes of data will take more than 100 days to transfer over a dedicated 100 Mbps connection. That same transfer can be accomplished in less than one day, plus shipping time, using two Snowball appliances."

With a 100 Mbps connection it takes over 100 days [1] but with a 100 times faster connection (10 Gbps) it takes less than a day :)

[1] Assuming no network overhead it is 92.6 days

[nacs]

Good luck trying to saturate the 10Gbps port (on both the read and write sides) however.

[kuschku]

Snowball is just a device with a 10Gbps port – so if you have 10Gbps, you won’t need Snowball ;)