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I'm with the whole DVD thing. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a box of discs in a postal van. The ping time on the other hand...


There's a photo in our office of a couple employees handing hard drives down a chain like a fire brigade. The caption: "The bandwidth is great. It's the latency that kills you."




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