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orthecreedence on March 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?

Sometimes a truck full of hard drives is the fastest/cheapest way. Not saying that's what they did, but it has been done before.

jamesblonde on March 8, 2016 [–]

Yes, that's how the England 100,000 genomes project is transferring 10s of petabytes from San Diego to England. I assume it was the same here.

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