"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard-drives driving down the highway" or however the saying goes. Latency is extremely long, but the bandwidth is crazy once it's arrive!
Edit: Original quote (seems I accidentally modernized it a bit):
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway – Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
Edit: Original quote (seems I accidentally modernized it a bit):
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway – Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981