so f/devs i have a question for you

i have 1TB of wedding footage to download from photographer

i have 2 macbooks: both have 100gb available

i have 1.7TB space in google drive. i have no hard drives. 

i need to download these files ASAP, ideally skipping local storage

wat do??

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I recommend you buy and store these images on an external hard drive anyway. Your Google account can be compromised, and/or your account shut down for violating terms of service. 

Buy and send a hard drive to your photographer, or ask them to buy one and invoice you.

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Use that offline storage for redundancy and Google drive for convenience.


Don't play around with single copies of unreproducible data

hm fair point. making me think i should do this and ask for 2 hard drives

Funnily enough, for really large amounts of data, its faster to load trucks with hard drives and drive them across the country than send via the Internet

Netflix would drive trucks of hard drives to data centers to populate streaming servers with content