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Is this for work/science? What could you possibly download 40 TB of monthly? I am just curious.

by klbarry 15y ago

ZachPruckowski 15y ago
I imagine if you were one of the MAJOR seeders for a legal torrent (Open Source software, CC content, etc.) you could easily hit that. If 1000 people download a 5GB Linux distro from you, that's 5 TB. Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time.
- billybob 15y ago
  "Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time" If you were using version control, couldn't you push just the diffs?
  - chopsueyar 15y ago
    Does it work the same for binaries as text?
    - allenp 15y ago
      There are definitely systems that will just send the bytes that have changed (and their locations naturally). DropBox does this: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631
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ramchip 15y ago
Yes, that's impressive. Our largest plan here has 30GB of transfers per month... (Canada)
sp332 15y ago
Hm, on inspection I am off by about a factor of 10, but if I had a faster net connection, I could hit that without too much trouble. I've got the usual Ubuntu ISO's and some more experimental OS's like "Elementary OS". I use uTorrent, which has mini-apps available. Most of the apps are just channels for content, so I've got Make Magazine channel, which only has old videos by now; TED talks, which are always popular; Pioneer One, which is an indie made-for-the-web TV show I like; and Khan Academy videos which use a lot of bandwidth because they've packaged an entire unit per torrent. In addition I'm downloading the Geocities torrent [1], and I got a bunch of video presentations from the Chaos Communications Congress back in December which are still in demand [2]. Since I last rebooted, the most popular torrents I have are videos from The Next HOPE conference, and BackTrack 4. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 and http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ [2] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html and ftp://media.ccc.de/congress/2010/mp4-h264-HQ/

Is this for work/science? What could you possibly download 40 TB of monthly? I am just curious.

by klbarry 15y ago

Is this for work/science? What could you possibly download 40 TB of monthly? I am just curious.

I imagine if you were one of the MAJOR seeders for a legal torrent (Open Source software, CC content, etc.) you could easily hit that. If 1000 people download a 5GB Linux distro from you, that's 5 TB. Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time.

billybob 15y ago
"Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time" If you were using version control, couldn't you push just the diffs?
- chopsueyar 15y ago
  Does it work the same for binaries as text?
  - allenp 15y ago
    There are definitely systems that will just send the bytes that have changed (and their locations naturally). DropBox does this: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631
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ramchip 15y ago

Yes, that's impressive. Our largest plan here has 30GB of transfers per month... (Canada)

sp332 15y ago

Hm, on inspection I am off by about a factor of 10, but if I had a faster net connection, I could hit that without too much trouble. I've got the usual Ubuntu ISO's and some more experimental OS's like "Elementary OS". I use uTorrent, which has mini-apps available. Most of the apps are just channels for content, so I've got Make Magazine channel, which only has old videos by now; TED talks, which are always popular; Pioneer One, which is an indie made-for-the-web TV show I like; and Khan Academy videos which use a lot of bandwidth because they've packaged an entire unit per torrent. In addition I'm downloading the Geocities torrent [1], and I got a bunch of video presentations from the Chaos Communications Congress back in December which are still in demand [2]. Since I last rebooted, the most popular torrents I have are videos from The Next HOPE conference, and BackTrack 4. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 and http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ [2] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html and ftp://media.ccc.de/congress/2010/mp4-h264-HQ/