hey, I'm fairly new here so this question might be a no-brainer. I've recently stumbled upon a desktop screenshot (http://ratemydesktop.org/pm/UMOG/rmbp.html) which reports 562.95 TB free disk space. is it fake/bugged?
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562.95 TB free. How does that happen?
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That's very, very easy to fake, especially as it's just a picture.
Also it seems like a pretty obvious fake since all the numbers are identical.
Obvious ? All the folders just reside on the same storage device. That doesn't make it fake because "All the numbers are identical".
iSCSI SAN at his work place is more likely.
Is it not odd that he has the same amount filled as he has free? To the terrabyte?
The capacity and free space are the same, I think - meaning they're empty.
Also, the size of 562.95 TB is actually 562,949,953,421,312 bytes - in other words, exactly on half of a petabyte. (Aka half of 1024*1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes, or half of 2^50, or 2^49.)
It very well could be that these folders represent a connection to a very large SAN (costing six or maybe even seven figures) but I suspect they're actually just sparsebundle files. IIRC, you can create your own half-petabyte sparsebundle via disk util, and it'll only be as big as it needs to be to hold whatever you put in it.
Funny thing is with a new SAN unit the free and used space are the same.
I think you're reading too much into the picture. People do stupid stuff on the internet but this makes no sense, the site and picture are for rating someone's desktop not to show (or fool people ) how much free space he has. Occam's razor really fits in this case. Why do all sorts of logical back bending to say its fake when the simplest answer fits - its a SAN, probably a new one.
Some additional info - while playing around with my Win7 machine, the max size of a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk (VHD) is only 2,040 GB. Turns out that the max "size" of a sparse image under OSX is 128 petabytes and for a sparse bundle it's eight exabytes! Yall should make THAT as a mounted volume for a screen shot. 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/hdiutil.1.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/hdiutil.1.html
