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WD Caviar Green WD30EZRX SATA 600
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> Boeing 747 has a bandwidth of 1 TBps.
Hmm, not sure about those numbers.
Say we limit it to this trip, at 10 hours.
A Boeing 747 can carry ~30,000 kg (http://www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_facts.html) You can get get 3TB 3.5' drives now, and they weight about 1kg (http://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Caviar-Green-WD30EZRX-SATA-600/dp...), so 30,0003TB is 90,000TB in 10 hours.
10 hours is 36000 seconds, so that means that the speed of the data on a 10 hour flight is actually 90000/36000 = 2.5TB/sec.
That said, if we were to account for the next generation jump (http://www.techspot.com/news/47860-seagate-60tb-hdds-possibl...) so 60TB for about a kilo, we'd get 6030000 / 36000 = 50TB a second.
Obviously, the longer the flight, the more inefficient this transfer becomes.