In 2026, when gigabit broadband, 5G is popular, and cloud storage is everywhere, you may think that very large file transfers can already be transferred in seconds. But the reality is surprising——For massive data that can easily reach several terabytes, the fastest and safest way is still “human flesh distribution”.A netizen in Xinyang, Henan shared his experience. Previously, he needed to transmit 4TB of data to Zhengzhou. He initially tried network transmission and found that it was estimated to take up to 3 days.
In the end, we decided to send someone to drive to deliver the goods, and the handover could be completed on the same day, which was far more efficient than network transmission.
Blogger Han Lu conducted calculations and analysis, confirming this seemingly outrageous but extremely true conclusion.
4TB is equivalent to 4 million MB. Even if the home broadband upload speed reaches the high-speed level of 130MB/second, the upload process alone will take 8.5 hours.
If coupled with the same 8.5 hours of download time on the receiving end, the entire transmission process takes nearly 20 hours. Calculating it this way, it is indeed faster to fly or drive by high-speed train while carrying a hard drive.
Netizens lamented: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a speeding truck full of hard drives.
In today's highly developed information network, this phenomenon seems contradictory, but in fact it reflects the practical limitations of technology. Although network transmission technology continues to iterate, bandwidth limitations are still difficult to completely solve when faced with extremely large volumes of data.
