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.
This was your local EPA? Do you mean at the state level (often referred to as “DEP”)? Or is this the federal EPA?
Because that seems like quite the expense in 2000, and I can’t imagine my state’s DEP every shelling out that kind of cash for it. Even nowadays.
Sounds cool though.
I think it was the EPA’s National Compute Center. I’m guessing based on location though.