What is the fastest to slowest out of these objects from 1 being the slowest and 5 being the fastest Hard drive Disk RAM printer Thumb drive And floppy disk drive?

Answer 1

Disk Drive: 3 Ram: 5 Printer: ??? As far as data communication to a printer via USB ... about a 3 Thumb Drive: most are roughly a 3 Floppy Disk: 1 Gravity FYI: All these object fall at the same rate when thrown out a window with the exception of the floppy disk which has enough surface area vs. mass that wind resistence tends to make it flutter a bit to the ground. Unless dropped from greater then 20 stories (or 200 feet) the other objects don't have enough time to hit terminal velocity where wind resistence starts to factor in. Dropped from great heights I would actually wager that a stick of ram and a thumb drive would have a pretty good race to the ground have the smallest surface area but I am not an engineer... UPS: Transferring 80 terabytes of data is actually faster as of 3/23/9 to write the data to hard disks locally and FEDEX the drives to a destination (in the continental US) then trying to transmit them via the internet. In my last check the fastest torrent I've seen was the Ubuntu torrent feed for the last release with 3000+ seeders on a t3 at a telecom with 883 KB/s downspeed. This is of course ruling out specialized transfers from site to site, research releated, etc. Just plain old consumer home grade transmission rates. Even with 100 Megabit Fiber from MCI I'd wager that mailing 80Tbs is still faster with Next Day Overnight.