[rapjr9]

I helped run a wireless research data archive for a while. We made smaller data sets available via internet download but for the larger data sets we asked people to send us a hard drive to get a copy. Sneakernet can be faster and cheaper than using the internet. Even if you wanted to distribute 10TB of _new_ data every month, mailing hard drives would probably be faster and cheaper, unless all your customers are on Internet2 or unlimited fiber.

[radar1310]

Nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives:-)

[linsomniac]

I'm so old I remember when it was a station wagon full of mag tape.