I guess that one needs some help to transfer "swiftly" 8000 Terabytes of data. At 1 Terabit per second it would take about 18 hours.

  8000*8 Tb / 60s / 60 / 24 = .740740...
  24 h *.740 = 17.76 h

But is 1 Tb/s a thing?

I think this has been another case of "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" (Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981). Maybe rack units of disks? For very important data I would pay for the privilege of removing my disks at a very short notice.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

▲ rolph 4 hours ago | parent [-]

that would be an interesting service contract.

the rack and infra are yours; the storage media and all contents are mine.

	▲	coredog64 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AWS Snowball can be used to get data out of S3. They copy it onto portable devices, ship them to you, and you can copy the data off without saturating your DirectConnect bandwidth.