Andrew Tanenbaum [1] has been quoted as saying, “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” And yes, if you have a large amount of data to transfer, sometimes it is better to physically move it than transfer it over the Intarwebs.
And if you have a metric buttload of data?
AWS (Amazon Web Services) Snowmobile is an Exabyte- scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB (Petabyte) per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck. Snowmobile makes it easy to move massive volumes of data to the cloud, including video libraries, image repositories, or even a complete data center migration. Transferring data with Snowmobile is secure, fast and cost effective.
Via Lobster s [2], “AWS Snowmobile – Massive Exabyte-Scale Data Transfer Service [3]”
And for the record, a petabyte (PB) is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes which I think is the expected size of the next version of Windows.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
[2] https://lobste.rs/s/epgrmt/amazons_exabyte_scale_data_transfer