[Hidden-tech] best LARGE file transfer method

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Sat May 23 14:07:28 EDT 2015


At Fri, 22 May 2015 22:13:36 -0400 Daniel Nelson <daniel.nelson at gmail.com> wrote:

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> With over 50 gigs copy to an external hard drive and ship it.
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> You could ship the data back and forth fed ex many times across the country
> in the amount of time it will take to upload and download over the internet.

Right: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with 
tapes."

2.5" SATA SSDs can be had cheap from E-Bay.  No moving parts, very rugged. You 
just need something like this and each 'end' of the transfer:

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-eSATA-External-Docking-Station/dp/B001J8BPYM


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> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:53 PM, scot <scot at scotbroderick.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Kris,
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> > A simple and reliable solution would be an ftp site on a shared or
> > dedicated server and a fast connection.
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> > 50 gigs over a 25mbits/sec connection (upload) would take approximately 4
> > 1/2 hrs.
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> > Sent on a Samsung Galaxy S®4
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> > From: kris badertscher
> > Date:05/22/2015 6:30 PM (GMT-05:00)
> > To: hidden-discuss
> > Subject: [Hidden-tech] best LARGE file transfer method
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> > Any one have a tip or two on how best to transfer 50+GB across the
> > interwaves that won't take 4 days on one's computer? No, not dropbox or
> > Google anything, nor uTorrent or AirDrop or any of those things we
> > *assume* works fine. The issue really is up/downloading speeds....
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> > Thanks, Kris
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