[kimburgess]

It's still a valid form of data transport today. AWS will (literally) ship you a 45-foot container with 100PB of storage for shifting bits around: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/.

[mjg59]

Not just Amazon, Google at least will send you something similar: https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overvie...

(I helped with the design for the attestation that gives you more confidence that the device hasn't been tampered with in transit)