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I've taken 4 drives on a flight once. basically yes, this is your best option if you trust yourself more than strangers. buy a pelican case, get anti static bags, make sure it has foam padding inside, and fits in the carry-on dimensions

https://www.amazon.com/Pelican-1450-001-110-1450-Carrying-Multipurpose/dp/B0090XXY92

This case looks pretty nice also

Is this for business or for personal? If money is no object and the drives themselves contain unreplaceable data I'd ship them in a Pelican case.

Amazon

> the actual cost is about $120 per year per cop to store the videos.

Even if it was double the cost of what I had pointed out, your statement still proves that it's easily affordable to do. Compared to the costs of a multi-million dollar lawsuit pay out that may happen every few years or so, it's costs are negligible in comparison.

You don't need an ISP to move data, there are data transport / secure storage / secure destruction companies such as Iron Mountain and that is their bread and butter. There is competition in that sector which also drives the price down too.

Let's use /r/ioncloud9's figures of 12TB every 60 days. At that level, you don't use an ISP, you use rack mounted removable hard drives OR a removable network attached storage (NAS) device and transport that in a rotation schedule.

Pull the drives that are mounted in their drive sleds and put that into an anti-static bag, that goes into a waterproof Pelican hardened travel case designed for hard drives which has high density foam slots sized for the drive and sled, it's locked and sealed.

On a schedule, the Iron Mountain van / truck shows up, signs for the case and then they take it to their data center and offload the data on the drives to their secure data storage pods. The drives are returned and the police IT department wipes the drives and sets them back in to the rotation for further use.

Professional IT people do this all the time, its a common industry accepted practice.



"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.".

--Andrew S. Tanenbaum, (1989). Computer Networks 4th ed., p. 91




"Imagine a company with two offices in different cities, perhaps even in different countries. Each office has a 100 megabit internet connection. If the company needs to send a large amount of data from one office to the other, theoretically a 100 megabit connection can muster about 45 gigabyte in one hour if there are no bottlenecks on the way. This ends up being just over one terabyte of data in 24 hours.

In other words, for anything larger than one terabyte, it would be faster for this company to just send the data on disks for over-night delivery."

--Royal Pingdom, April 11, 2007




In 2015 Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Snowball, a 50 lb (23 kg), 50 TB device for transporting data to the AWS cloud.

Amazon's turn key solution is so simple.

"Sneakernet will never die."

--ComputerSavvy, September 11, 2016.

No ISP needed, cheap, secure and efficient. With today's technology and services that are available which I linked to above, there is absolutely no excuse that holds up to the scrutiny of an informed public.

I still stand by my original statement that the police are using perceived costs as a smoke screen to hide the fact from people who don't know how cheap it is to store and transport data at the professional level.

The police don't want 100% accountability which the cameras and microphones deliver, the camera never blinks and does not lie in court and the last thing you want is legal proof that you just violated a citizen's rights in full HD up on a big screen TV in front of a jury.