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What is the largest file transfer you have ever done? (startrek.website)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm writing a program that wraps around dd to try and warn you if you are doing anything stupid. I have thus been giving the man page a good read. While doing this, I noticed that dd supported all the way up to Quettabytes, a unit orders of magnitude larger than all the data on the entire internet.

This has caused me to wonder what the largest storage operation you guys have done. I've taken a couple images of hard drives that were a single terabyte large, but I was wondering if the sysadmins among you have had to do something with e.g a giant RAID 10 array.

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[–] brygphilomena 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In the middle of something 200tb for my Plex server going from a 12 bay system to a 36 LFF system. But I've also literally driven servers across the desert because it was faster than trying to move data from one datacenter to another.

[–] Dlayknee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's some RFC 2549 logic, right there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just thinking about how much data you could transfer using this. MicroSD cards makes it a decent amount. Latency would be horrible, but throughput could be pretty good I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Packet loss would be quite costly though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Amazon Snowball will send you a semi truck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which desert? I've lived in the desert my entire life.

[–] brygphilomena 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From LA to Vegas. Took the servers down end of business one night, drove it all night, installed it and got it back online before start of business the next day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As an ex-Vegas resident, I have to ask: why were you moving stuff to Vegas?

[–] brygphilomena 4 points 2 months ago

It's got a hell of a datacenter.

https://www.switch.com/las-vegas/