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by dstyrb 3847 days ago
As recently at 2000, major astronomical surveys (SDSS, York et al. 2000) would ship harddrives daily "via express courier" from the scopes to the processing computers.

That's the most recent I can think of. Although some surveys (2MASS) still offer data delivery "on a set of DVDs" if you can't handle FTP.