How Long Does It Take to Upload a Terabyte
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The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.
Sachin Date, e-Emphasys Technologies
It is accepted wisdom that when the data y'all wish to move into the deject is at terabyte scale and across, you are better off shipping it to the cloud provider, rather than uploading it. This article takes an analytical await at how shipping and uploading strategies compare, the diverse factors on which they depend, and nether what circumstances you are better off aircraft rather than uploading data, and vice versa. Such an belittling determination is important to make, given the increasing availability of gigabit-speed Internet connections, along with the explosive growth in data-transfer speeds supported past newer editions of bulldoze interfaces such as SAS and PCI Express. Equally this commodity reveals, the aforementioned "accepted wisdom" does not e'er hold truthful, and there are well-reasoned, practical recommendations for uploading versus shipping data to the cloud.
Here are a few key insights to consider when deciding whether to upload or ship:
• A direct upload of big data to the deject can require an unacceptable amount of time, even over Net connections of 100-Mbps (megabits per second) and faster. A convenient workaround has been to copy the information to storage tapes or hard drives and transport it to the deject data heart.
• With the increasing availability of affordable, optical cobweb-based Internet connections, yet, aircraft the data via drives becomes quickly unattractive from the point of view of both cost and speed of transfer.
• Shipping big data is realistic just if you lot tin can re-create the data into (and out of) the storage appliance at very high speeds and you accept a high-chapters, reusable storage appliance at your disposal. In this case, the shipping strategy can easily beat even optical fiber-based data upload on speed, provided the size of information is above a sure threshold value.
• For a given value of drive-to-bulldoze data-transfer speed, this threshold data size (beyond which aircraft the data to the cloud becomes faster than uploading it) grows with every Mbps increase in the bachelor upload speed. This growth continues up to a sure threshold upload speed. If your Isp provides an upload speed of greater or equal to this threshold speed, uploading the data will always be faster than aircraft it to the cloud, no affair how big the data is.
Suppose you want to upload your video drove into the public deject; or permit'southward say your company wishes to migrate its data from a private data center to a public cloud, or move it from one data center to another. In a way it doesn't thing what your contour is. Given the explosion in the corporeality of digital information that both individuals and enterprises have to deal with, the prospect of moving big data from one place to another over the Cyberspace is closer than you might recall.
To illustrate, allow'due south say yous accept 1 TB of business information to migrate to cloud storage from your self-managed data middle. You are signed up with a business organization programme with your Internet access provider that guarantees you lot an upload speed of fifty Mbps and a download speed of x times as much. All you need to practise is denote a short system-downtime window and begin hauling your information upwards to the cloud. Right?
Non quite.
For starters, you will need a whopping 47 hours to stop uploading 1 TB of data at a speed of l Mbps—and that's assuming your connectedness never drops or slows downwards.
If you upgrade to a faster—say, 100 Mbps—upload program, you lot can finish the chore in 1 twenty-four hours. But what if you have 2 TB of content to upload, or iv TB, or 10 TB? Even at a 100-Mbps sustained information-transfer charge per unit, you will need a mind-boggling 233 hours to move ten TB of content!
As you tin can see, conventional wisdom breaks down at terabyte and petabyte scales. It'south necessary to look at alternative, nonobvious ways of dealing with data of this magnitude.
Here are two such alternatives available today for moving big data:
• Copy the data locally to a storage appliance such every bit LTO (linear tape open) tape, HDD (hard-disk bulldoze), or SSD (solid-state drive), and ship it to the deject provider. For convenience, allow's telephone call this strategy "Ship It!"
• Perform a cloud-to-deject transfer of content over the Net using APIs (application programming interfaces) from both the source and destination cloud providers.six Let's call this strategy "Transfer It!"
This article compares these alternatives, with respect to time and price, to the baseline technique of uploading the data to the cloud server using an Internet connection. This baseline technique is called "Upload Information technology!" for short.
A REAL-LIFE SCENARIO
Suppose you want to upload your content into, purely for the sake of illustration, the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) cloud, specifically its data center in Oregon.2 This could well be any other deject-storage service provided by playersix in this space such as (but not limited to) Microsoft, Google, Rackspace, and IBM. Too, let's assume that your private information center is located in Kansas City, Missouri, which happens to exist roughly geographically equidistant from Amazon'south data centers2 located in the eastern and western United States.
Kansas Urban center is too one of the few places where a gigabit-speed optical-cobweb service is bachelor in the United States. In this case, it's offered by Google Cobweb.7
Every bit of November 2015, Google Cobweb offers one of the highest speeds that an Isp can provide in the United States: ane Gbps (gigabit per second), for both upload and download.13 Curt of having admission to a leased Gigabit Ethernet11 line, an optical cobweb-based Internet service is a actually, actually fast way to shove bits upwardly and down Internet pipes anywhere in the earth.
Assuming an average sustained upload speed of 800 Mbps on such a fiber-based connection,13 (i.east., eighty per centum of its advertised theoretical maximum speed of 1 Gbps), uploading 1 TB of data will require most iii hours to upload from Kansas Metropolis to S3 storage in Oregon. This is really pretty quick (bold, of course, your connection never slows down). Moreover, as the size of the data increases, the upload fourth dimension increases in the aforementioned ratio: xx TB requires 2½ days to upload, 50 TB requires almost a calendar week to upload, and 100 TB requires twice that long. At the other end of the calibration, a half a petabyte of data requires two months to upload. Uploading ane petabyte at 800 Mbps should keep you going for four months.
It's time to consider an culling.
Send Information technology!
That alternative is copying the data to a storage appliance and shipping the apparatus to the information middle, at which end the data is copied to cloud storage. This is the Ship It! strategy. Under what circumstances is this a viable alternative to uploading the information directly into the cloud?
The Mathematics of Shipping Data
When information is read out from a bulldoze, it travels from the physical drive hardware (e.g., the HDD platter) to the on-board deejay controller (the electronic circuitry on the drive). From in that location the data travels to the host controller (a.k.a. the host bus adapter, a.g.a. the interface bill of fare) and finally to the host organization (e.g., the figurer with which the bulldoze is interfaced). When data is written to the drive, it follows the reverse route.
When data is copied from a server to a storage apparatus (or vice versa), the data has to travel through an additional physical layer, such as an Ethernet or USB connectedness existing between the server and the storage apparatus.
Figure 1 is a simplified view of the information flow when copying data to a storage appliance. The direction of data menstruum shown in the effigy is conceptually reversed when the data is copied out from the storage appliance to the cloud server.
Note that ofttimes the storage apparatus may exist nothing more than than a single hard drive, in which instance the data catamenia from the server to this drive is basically forth the dotted line in the figure.
Given this data flow, a unproblematic style to express the time needed to transfer the data to the cloud using the Ship It! strategy is shown in equation 1:
Where:
Vcontent is the book of information to be transferred in megabytes (MB).
SpeedcopyIn is the sustained rate in MBps (megabytes per 2d) at which data is copied from the source drives to the storage apparatus. This speed is essentially the minimum of three speeds: (one) the speed at which the controller reads data out of the source bulldoze and transfers it to the host computer with which information technology interfaces; (2) the speed at which the storage apparatus's controller receives data from its interfaced host and writes information technology into the storage appliance; and (three) the speed of data transfer between the ii hosts. For case, if the two hosts are connected over a Gigabit Ethernet or a Fibre Channel connection, and the storage appliance is capable of writing information at 600 MBps, simply if the source drive and its controller tin can emit data at only twenty MBps, then the effective copy-in speed tin can be at most 20 MBps.
SpeedcopyOut is similarly the sustained rate in MBps at which information is copied out of the storage appliance and written into cloud storage.
Ttransit is the transit time for the shipment via the courier service from source to destination in hours.
Toverhead is the overhead time in hours. This can include the time required to buy the storage devices (e.1000., tapes), set them up for information transfer, pack and create the shipment, and drop it off at the shipper's location. At the receiving terminate, it includes the time needed to process the shipment received from the shipper, store information technology temporarily, unpack it, and set it upward for data transfer.
The Apply of Sustained Information-transfer Rates
Storage devices come in a variety of types such as HDD, SSD, and LTO. Each type is available in different configurations such as a RAID (redundant array of independent disks) of HDDs or SSDs, or an HDD-SSD combination where one or more SSDs are used every bit a fast read-ahead cache for the HDD array. There are likewise many different data-transfer interfaces such as SCSI (Small Estimator Organisation Interface), SATA (Serial AT Attachment), SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), USB (universal serial bus), PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Express, Thunderbolt, etc. Each of these interfaces supports a unlike theoretical maximum data-transfer speed.
Figure 2 lists the data-transfer speeds supported past a recent edition of some of these controller interfaces.
The effective copy-in/copy-out speed while copying information to/from a storage appliance depends on a number of factors:
• Type of bulldoze. For example, SSDs are ordinarily faster than HDDs partly because of the absenteeism of any moving parts. Among HDDs, college-RPM drives can showroom lower seek times than lower-RPM drives. Similarly, higher areal-density (bits per surface area) drives tin lead to higher data-transfer rates.
• Configuration of the bulldoze. Speeds are affected by, for example, single disk versus an assortment of redundant disks, and the presence or absenteeism of read-alee caches on the drive.
• Location of the data on the drive. If the drive is fragmented (particularly applicable to HDDs), it can take longer to read information from and write data to it. Similarly, on HDD platters, data located nigh the periphery of the platter will exist read faster than information located almost the spindle. This is because the linear speed of the platter near the periphery is much higher than near the spindle.
• Type of data-transfer interface. SAS-3 versus SATA Revision 3, for case, can make a difference in speeds.
• Pinch and encryption. Pinch and/or encryption at source and decompression and/or de-encryption at the destination reduce the constructive data-transfer rate.
Because of these factors, the effective sustained re-create-in or re-create-out rate is likely to exist much different (usually much less) than the burst read/write charge per unit of either the source drive and its interface or the destination bulldoze and its controller interface.
With these considerations in heed, let'southward run some numbers through equation 1, considering the following scenario. You decide to use LTO-6 tapes for copying information. An LTO-vi cartridge can store ii.five TB of data in uncompressed course.18 LTO-6 supports an uncompressed read/write data speed of 160 MBps.nineteen Allow's make an important simplifying assumption that both the source drive and the destination cloud storage can friction match the 160-MBps transfer speed of the LTO-half-dozen tape drive (i.e., SpeedcopyIn = SpeedcopyOut = 160 MBps). Y'all choose the overnight shipping option and the shipper requires 16 hours to deliver the shipment (i.e., Ttransit = 16 hours). Finally, let'southward factor in 48 hours of overhead time (i.e., Toverhead = 48 hours).
Plugging these values into equation 1 and plotting the data-transfer time versus data size using the Ship It! strategy produces the maroon line in figure three. For the sake of comparison, the blue line shows the information-transfer fourth dimension of the Upload It! strategy using a cobweb-based Cyberspace connection running at 800-Mbps sustained upload charge per unit. The figure shows comparative growth in information-transfer time between uploading at 800 Mbps versus copying it to LTO-6 tapes and aircraft information technology overnight.
Equation i shows that a significant amount of time in the Transport It! strategy is spent copying data into and out of the storage appliance. The shipping fourth dimension is comparatively small-scale and constant (even if yous are shipping internationally), while the drive-to-bulldoze copy-in/copy-out time increases to a very big value every bit the size of the content existence transferred grows. Given this fact, information technology'south difficult to beat out a fiber-based connection on raw data-transfer speed, especially when the competing strategy involves copy in/copy out using an LTO-6 tape bulldoze running at 160 MBps.
Oft, yet, yous may non be so lucky equally to take admission to a i-Gbps upload link. In most regions of the globe, you lot may get no more than than 100 Mbps, if that much, and rarely so on a sustained ground. For example, at 100 Mbps, Send It! has a definite advantage for large information volumes, as in figure 4, which shows comparative growth in data-transfer time between uploading at 100 Mbps versus copying the data to LTO-6 tapes and aircraft information technology overnight.
The maroon line in figure 4 represents the transfer time of the Send Information technology! strategy using LTO-half-dozen tapes, while this time the bluish line represents the transfer fourth dimension of the Upload It! strategy using a 100-Mbps upload link. Shipping the data using LTO-half dozen tapes is a faster means of getting the data to the cloud than uploading it at 100 Mbps for data volumes as low as 4 terabytes.
What if you have a much faster means of copying information in and out of the storage appliance? How would that compete with a fiber-based Net link running at 800 Mbps? With all other parameter values staying the aforementioned, and assuming a drive-to-drive re-create-in/re-create-out speed of 240 MBps (50 percent faster than what LTO-6 tin support), the inflection point (i.east., the content size at which the Transport It! strategy becomes faster than the Upload Information technology! strategy at 800 Mbps) is around 132 terabytes. For an even faster bulldoze-to-bulldoze copy-in/re-create-out speed of 320 MBps, the inflection point drops sharply to 59 terabytes. That means if the content size is 59 TB or college, information technology will be quicker but to ship the data to the deject provider than to upload it using a fiber-based ISP running at 800 Mbps.
Figure five shows the comparative growth in data-transfer time between uploading it at 800 Mbps versus copying information technology at a 320-MBps transfer rate and aircraft information technology overnight.
Two Central Questions
This analysis brings up the following two questions:
• If you know how much information you wish to upload, what is the minimum sustained upload speed your Isp must provide, below which you would be better off shipping the data via overnight courier?
• If your Internet service provider has promised you a certain sustained upload speed, across what data size volition shipping the data be a quicker fashion of hauling it up to the cloud than uploading it?
Equation 1 can aid answer these questions by estimating how long it will take to send your information to the data middle. This quantity is (Transfer Time)hours . At present imagine uploading the same book of data (5content Megabytes), in parallel, over a network link. The question is, what is the minimum sustained upload speed needed to finish uploading everything to the information eye in the same corporeality of time as aircraft it there. Thus, you just have to express equation 1's left-hand side (i.e., (Transfer Time)hours ) in terms of (a) the book of data (Vcontent Megabytes); and (b) the required minimum Internet connection speed (Speedupload Mbps). In other words: (Transfer Fourth dimension)hours = 8 × Vcontent/Speedupload .
Having made this substitution, let'south continue with the scenario: LTO-half-dozen-based data transfer running at 160-MBps, overnight aircraft of 16 hours, and 48 hours of overhead fourth dimension. Also assume at that place is i TB of data to transfer to the cloud.
The aforementioned commutation reveals that unless the ISP provides a sustained upload speed (Speedupload) of at least 34.45 Mbps, the information can be transferred faster using a Ship It! strategy that involves an LTO-half-dozen tape-based data transfer running at 160 MBps and a shipping and handling overhead of 64 hours.
Figure half dozen shows the relationship between the volume of data to be transferred (in TB) and the minimum sustained ISP upload speed (in Mbps) that is needed to make uploading the information equally fast as shipping it to the data eye. For very large data sizes, the threshold Internet access provider upload speed becomes less sensitive to the data size and more sensitive to the drive-to-bulldoze copy-in/copy-out speeds with which it is competing. The effigy shows that the ISP upload speed at which the data-transfer time using the Upload It! strategy matches that of the Send It! strategy is a function of information size and bulldoze-to-drive re-create-in/copy-out speed.
Now let'south attempt to reply the second question. This time, assume Speedupload (in Mbps) is the maximum sustained upload speed that the ISP can provide. What is the maximum data size across which it will be quicker to ship the information to the information middle? Once again, recall that equation 1 helps estimate the time required (Transfer Time)hours to ship the data to the data center for a given information size (Vcontent MB) and drive-to-bulldoze copy-in/copy-out speeds. If you were instead to upload Vcontent MB at Speedupload Mbps over a network link, you would need 8 × Vcontent/Speedupload hours. At a sure threshold value of Vcontent , these two transfer times (aircraft versus upload) volition become equal. Equation 1 can be rearranged to limited this threshold data size:
Figure 7 shows the human relationship between this threshold data size and the available sustained upload speed from the Internet access provider for dissimilar values of drive-to-drive copy-in/copy-out speeds. The figure shows that the alter in the break-even data-transfer size after which the Ship Information technology! strategy becomes faster than the Upload It! strategy is a function of ISP-provided upload speed and bulldoze-to-drive copy-in/copy-out speed.
Equation 2 also shows that, for a given value of drive-to-drive copy-in/re-create-out speed, the upward tendency in Vcontent continues up to a signal where Speedupload = 8/ΔTdata copy , beyond which Fivecontent becomes space, pregnant that it is no longer possible to transport the information more than quickly than simply uploading it to the cloud, no matter how gargantuan the information size. In this case, unless you switch to a faster means of copying data in and out of the storage appliance, you are better off but uploading it to the destination cloud.
Once more, in the scenario of LTO-six tape-based data transfer running at 160-MBps transfer speed, overnight shipping of 16 hours, and 48 hours of overhead time, the upload speed across which information technology'southward always faster to upload than to ship your data is 640 Mbps. If you lot have access to a faster ways of drive-to-drive data copying—say, running at 320 MBps—your ISP will need to offering a sustained upload speed of more than 1,280 Mbps to make it speedier for you to upload the data than to re-create and transport it.
Deject-TO-Deject DATA TRANSFER
Some other strategy is to transfer data direct from the source deject to the destination cloud. This is usually washed using APIs from the source and destination deject providers. Information can be transferred at various levels of granularity such as logical objects, buckets, byte blobs, files, or merely a byte stream. Yous can besides schedule large data transfers equally batch jobs that can run unattended and alarm yous on completion or failure. Consider deject-to-cloud data transfer particularly when:
• Your data is already in one such deject-storage provider and you wish to move information technology to another deject-storage provider.
• Both the source and destination cloud-storage providers offering data egress and ingress APIs.
• You wish to accept reward of the information copying and scheduling infrastructure and services already offered past the cloud providers.
Note that cloud-to-cloud transfer is conceptually the aforementioned equally uploading data to the cloud in that the data moves over an Internet connection. Hence, the same speed considerations utilize to it as explained previously while comparing it with the strategy of shipping data to the data center. Also note is that the Cyberspace connection speed from the source to destination clouds may not exist the same as the upload speed provided by the Isp.
COST OF Data TRANSFER
LTO-6 tapes, at 0.013 cents per GB,18 provide one of the lowest cost-to-storage ratios, compared with other options such as HDD or SSD storage. Information technology'due south easy to encounter, however, that the total cost of tape cartridges becomes prohibitive for storing terabyte and beyond content sizes. One option is to store data in a compressed grade. LTO-6, for instance, tin can shop upwardly to 6.25 TB per tape18 in compressed format, thereby leading to fewer tape cartridges. Compressing the information at the source and uncompressing it at the destination, even so, further reduces the effective re-create-in/copy-out speed of LTO tapes, or for that matter with any other storage medium. As explained earlier, a low copy-in/copy-out speed can make shipping the data less attractive than uploading it over a cobweb-based ISP link.
Simply what if the cloud-storage provider loaned the storage appliance to yous? This way, the provider can potentially afford to utilise higher-end options such as high-finish SSDs or a combination HDD-SSD array in the storage appliance, which would otherwise be prohibitively expensive to buy simply for the purpose of transferring data. In fact, that is exactly the approach that Amazon appears to take taken with its AWS (Amazon Web Services) Snowball.three Amazon claims that upwards to fifty TB of data can be copied from your data source into the Snowball storage apparatus in less than one mean solar day. This performance feature translates into a sustained data-transfer charge per unit of at least 600 MBps. This kind of a information-transfer rate is possible only with very high-finish SSD/HDD drive arrays with read-ahead caches operating over a fast interface such as SATA Revision 3, SAS-3, or PCI Express, and a Gigabit Ethernet link out of the storage appliance.
In fact, the performance characteristics of AWS Snowball closely resemble those of a high-performance NAS (network-attached storage) device, complete with a CPU, on-board RAM, built-in data encryption services, Gigabit Ethernet network interface, and a congenital-in control program—not to mention a ruggedized, tamper-proof construction. The utility of services such equally Snowball comes from the cloud provider making a very high-operation (and expensive) NAS-like device available to users to "hire" to re-create-in/re-create-out files to the provider's deject. Other major cloud providers such as Google and Microsoft aren't far behind in offering such capabilities. Microsoft requires you lot to ship SATA II/3 internal HDDs for importing or exporting data into/from the Azure cloud and provides the software needed to gear up the drives for import or export.16 Google, on the other hand, appears to have outsourced the data-re-create service to a third-party provider.eight
One terminal indicate on the cost: unless your data is in a cocky-managed data center, usually the source cloud provider will charge you lot for information egress,4,five,12,15 whether you do a disk-based copying out of information or cloud-to-cloud data transfer. These charges are usually levied on a per-GB, per-TB, or per-request ground. At that place is usually no information ingress charge levied past the destination deject provider.
CONCLUSION
If y'all wish to move big data from ane location to some other over the Internet, in that location are a few options available—namely, uploading it directly using an Isp-provided network connexion, copying it into a storage appliance and shipping the appliance to the new storage provider, and, finally, cloud-to-cloud data transfer.
Which technique y'all choose depends on a number of factors: the size of data to exist transferred, the sustained Internet connectedness speed between the source and destination servers, the sustained drive-to-drive copy-in/re-create-out speeds supported past the storage apparatus and the source and destination drives, the monetary cost of data transfer, and to a smaller extent, the shipment price and transit time. Some of these factors upshot in the emergence of threshold upload speeds and threshold data sizes that fundamentally influence which strategy you would choose. Drive-to-drive copy-in/copy-out times have enormous influence on whether information technology is attractive to copy and transport data, every bit opposed to uploading information technology over the Net, especially when competing with an optical fiber-based Cyberspace link.
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Sachin Date (https://in.linkedin.com/in/sachindate) looks after the Microsoft and cloud applications portfolio of east-Emphasys Technologies (www.due east-emphasys.com). In his by lives, Date has worked as a practice caput for mobile technologies, an enterprise software architect, and a researcher in autonomous software agents. He blogs at https://sachinsdate.wordpress.com. He holds a main'southward degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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