[zeristor]

So sneaker net was once someone walking around with burnt CD-ROM, then it was a box of drives, and now its a truck.

Quite a dramatic illustration of the increase in data usage.

If one extrapolates next stop will be a train, and then a container ship full of hard drives.

[masklinn]

> then it was a box of drives, and now its a truck.

Between that was FEDEX-ing a NAS. That's pretty much the standard data-exchange format in astronomy, so you have a fast link and don't need to bother plugging a bunch of drives in, just plug the NAS to the power and network and off you go.

[zeristor]

Hmmm....

So when will The Universe be too small to data considering data use is exponential.

I imagine there are lower upper limits, but this would be the upper upper limit.