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

submitted 4 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] 82 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not that big by today's standards, but I once downloaded the Windows 98 beta CD from a friend over dialup, 33.6k at best. Took about a week as I recall.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I remember downloading the scene on American Pie where Shannon Elizabeth strips naked over our 33.6 link and it took like an hour, at an amazing resolution of like 240p for a two minute clip 😂

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

And then you busted after 15 seconds?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Totally worth it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Yep, downloaded XP over 33.6k modem, but I'm in NZ so 33.6 was more advertising than reality, it took weeks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In similar fashion, downloaded dude where's my car, over dialup, using at the time the latest tech method - a file download system that would split the file into 2mb chunks and download them in order.

It took like 4 days.