It's lightning fast!

[plonq]

Question: How long does it take to copy 38,646 files (8,566,073,912 GB of data) from one of our servers out in Toronto onto my desktop computer?

Answer: Just over 18.5 hours. That works out to about 125 k/s

The sad thing is that we could have burned the data to a couple of DVDs and sent it out by overnight courier and I'd have had it sooner.

People here wonder why I start tearing at my hair every time I am forced to work with large files on one of our network shares...

Comments

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

8,566,073,912 GB of data

Let's see, so that would be 8.6 Exabytes? :-)

(I had to look that up; it goes giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta...)

(YOTTA YATTA!)

[tv5901.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it... lol

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, you're right. I may have to rethink my math here. O_o

[tv5901.livejournal.com]

Oh "Yatta!" No matter how many times I watch it, it never seems to get old, let alone put a smile on my face!

[tv5901.livejournal.com]

And as a side note, please ignore my 2nd grade sentence structure. It's Friday, and my brain is not awake.

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

Awesome icon! Awesome game!

[typographer.livejournal.com]

125 k/s for 18.5 hours works out to 7.94 GB, not billions of GB... unless I'm missing something...

And if you have DVDs that can hold 4 billion GB, I want one.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Ya, it was an honest typo. I was going to go back and fix it after Duncan called me on it, but things got a bit busy after that and I never got back to it.

At worst, people read the entry and think, "Poor plonq has finally lost it for real."

[furahi.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the bandwidth of sending a bunch of hard disks through the mail is.
The latency is always high, but you make up for it with the bandwidth ;D