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

submitted 3 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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (16 children)

I work in cinema content so hysterical laughter

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Interesting! Could you give some numbers? And what do you use to move the files? If you can disclose obvs

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

A small dcp is around 500gb. But that's like basic film shizz, 2d, 5.1 audio. For comparison, the 3D deadpool 2 teaser was 10gb.

Aspera's commonly used for transmission due to the way it multiplexes. It's the same protocolling behind Netflix and other streamers, although we don't have to worry about preloading chunks.

My laughter is mostly because we're transmitting to a couple thousand clients at once, so even with a small dcp thats around a PB dropped without blinking

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

Ahhh thanks for the reply! Makes sense! We also use Aspera here at work (videogames) but dont move that ammount, not even close.

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