At an average speed of 65 mph, on the other hand, you could drive a Snowmobile from San Francisco to New York City in about 45 hours-about 4,970 gigabits per second. Even with a one gigabit per-second connection such as Google Fiber, uploading 100 petabytes over the internet would take more than 28 years. But for such massive amounts of data, hitting the open road is still the most efficient way to go.
Using multiple semis to shuttle data around might seem like overkill. Snowmobile acts like a giant hard drive that comes to you.
But copying 100 petabytes to individual hard drives isn't practical. Amazon has long let businesses ship hard disks full of data to Amazon for uploading into the retail giant's cloud.
