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Trebuchets are the most technologically advanced siege engines of all time, and are capable of hurling a 90kg stone over 300m using a counterweight.

With this in mind, we can perform the following calculations:

A 22TB WD Red Pro drive weighs 670g, with a maximum hurl weight of 90kg, trebuchet can hurl 134 drives at once, totalling 2,948 TB of data.

The average speed of a trebuchet projectile is 54m/s and the average size of an American 'block' is 100m. Lets presume 3 blocks to get our full trebuchets use (fuck you catapults).

It'll take 5.5 seconds for the projectile to go from launch to dramatic landing, meaning a throughput of 536TB a second.

Therefore, trebuchets are the best transfer method.

Yeah, but having that ping time of 36,000,000ms really kind of sucks.

3 TB = 3000 GB = 24k Gbit

Even with real Gigabit upload, it would have taken 24k seconds, which is 6.6 hours, to transfer, assuming the receiving end has at least 1 Gigabit of download. You have to keep in mind that 3 TB is pretty unusual to actually transfer, and if you do, you're either a data center with 10+ Gigabit or actually meet in person to exchange data, as the receiving end would need Gigabit too, of course.
Just choosing an arbitrary number to transport is always going to prefer the bird way. At the point where 100 Gigabit Internet is normal, we will be able to pack Petabytes on those birds with ease.

I knew this was clickbait.