A media archive holds roughly 40 TB of video that must reach Cloud Storage within about two weeks. The office uplink cannot move that volume in time. Which offering should the team evaluate for shipping the data on physical hardware?
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Answer: C
Transfer Appliance is a Google-supplied storage device. The customer loads data locally, ships the appliance back, and Google uploads the contents into Cloud Storage. This suits offline transfers of tens of terabytes or more when the network would take too long. Storage Transfer Service and gsutil both move data over the network, so they remain limited by the uplink. Dedicated Interconnect speeds up the link but takes time to provision and still depends on network transfer rather than shipped hardware.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Storage Transfer Service copies data over the network, so the office uplink still caps throughput. It does not avoid the bandwidth problem the team has.
- B. gsutil rsync is a network copy tool. Running it from several workstations still pushes everything through the same constrained uplink.
- D. Dedicated Interconnect provides a private network link, but it takes time to provision and is still a network transfer. It is not a physical shipping option for bulk data.