CPU & RAM in a storage box

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:

>  so in theory I could back
> up a terabyte of movies for the same price (of course, it would  
> probably take
> a year to upload a terabyte ;-)).


If my arithmetic and assumptions are correct, you can upload a  
megabyte in 8 seconds with an 800k bits per second NGN line.
This comes out to around 3 hours a gigabyte or 8 gigabytes a day.  
Multiply that out and a terabyte would take 128 days (slightly over 4  
months).

Since this does not include protocol overhead, retansmissions, network  
slow downs, etc, a year would IMHO be a reasonable estimate.

Geoff.

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