We’re gonna need a bigger hard drive

August 18, 2009

While attempting to unzip a file this afternoon, Windows was just not going to play ball:

Copy Folder

That’s 5.99 petabytes – I’m probably not going to see that much storage space in a desktop machine for a few years. Although I’m not sure why there is a ‘Try Again’ button on this dialog box, maybe it’s expecting me to wait for Western Digital’s new line of 10PB VelociRaptors.

Borrowing from the late Roy Scheider – “We’re gonna need a bigger hard drive.”

{ 10 comments }

1 Dave August 18, 2009 at 6:11 pm: Nice Was that under Vista or Seven?
2 Kyle Gordon August 18, 2009 at 6:11 pm: The joys of sparse files, perchance?
3 Aaron Parker August 18, 2009 at 8:21 pm: It was under Windows 7, but I’m sure the same thing would happen under Vista.

I was extracting a file, via the native Windows zip utility, compressed with WinZip 12′s native compression.
4 Shawn Bass August 18, 2009 at 11:21 pm: So did you try again?
5 Jatin Mehta August 23, 2009 at 10:23 am: Sir,
It seems that you are having a corrupted copy of the compressed zip file.
It may also be such that the link libraries of the zip application are corrupted.
Try to regain the file from a trusted source or use any other utility such as WINRAR.
Windows operating systems are too foolish to be blamed.
6 vaporvic August 24, 2009 at 2:10 am: According to Kevin Kelly of the New York Times, “the entire works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages” would amount to 50 petabytes of data.

Windows must recognize that your contribution to humankind is immense, and as such you need to start planning for more storage. Think of it as an “encoruagement feature”.

vic
7 Vaibhav August 25, 2009 at 10:26 pm: This error is really funny

What this shows is that Windows 7 understands what a PetaByte is… that is called forward thinking at its best.
8 Gareth Kitson September 2, 2009 at 2:14 pm: HAHA, Awesome, loving the “We’re gonna need a bigger” reference Watched that film only 2 weeks ago on way over to Fort Lauderdale..

Re: the PetaByte.. what were you unzipping?! According to Wikipedia, even Facebook has only 1.5 petabytes of users’ photos stored, translating into roughly 10 billion photos!

Gaz
9 Satnix September 24, 2009 at 6:04 pm: Good Facts of LIFE

Petabyte the PET will BITE some day and make us upgrade to a 100 PB disks Future is here !
10 Yonathan October 8, 2009 at 12:04 pm: Meh. I’m doing fine with my 320GB hard-disk.
In fact, it’s only 58GB full.