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What is the largest file transfer you have ever done? (startrek.website)
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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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[–] Azzk1kr@feddit.nl 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Eh, what's a dcp?

[–] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Digital Cinema Package; basically the movie file you're watching when you're in a movie theater.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Digital Cinema Package. Films come out in a buncha files that rather resemble a dvd rip. You got your video files (still called reels!) and your audio files, maybe some subtitle files and other bits and pieces and your assetmap (list of files) all in a big fat folder collectively called a DCP

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That article was a weird mix of insider info and wild inaccuracies