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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by chillfox »

godelski wrote: post #197
boring_twenties wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> USPS radiation scanning might wipe it I'm skeptical of this, since when I order microSD cards online they arrive via USPS and have a perfectly valid partition table and FAT filesystem on them.

I've sent flash media through mail without problems. As well as hard drives with disks. Never had an issue.

I would assume that mail scanning is similar to the x-ray scanner at the airport, and any SD card or hard drive that cant handle that is useless.

Could you imagine having your laptop and camera wiped every time you jumped on a plane.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by pxx »

ytjohn wrote: post #200
terramex wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

10TB, local or Internet: Physical Hard Drive. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes! In Poland there is an option to send package via train for 8$. Just go to station and give package to conductor/train guard, few hours later receiver can get it at destination station. Sending HDDs full of raw video footage this way is very popular among video editors here.

In the US, you can ship using Greyhound bus lines. I wouldn't recommend it for this scenario, but I know people that ship auto parts around this way. Ship up to 100lbs for some incredibly cheap rates. http://www.shipgreyhound.com/

This looks incredibly expensive and not competitive at all.

Over $20 for a 1 lb package, over $60 for a 50 lb package from Oakland to Los Angeles and a quoted time of four days station to station.

I can overnight a 50 lb package for $35, door to door, over that distance with the appropriate FedEx account and discounts. The ground service would cost me $30 without any discounts...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by 3np »

arsome wrote: post #179
livueta wrote: post #86

Bittorrent. No, really. Lots of nice behaviors when transferring large amounts of data between arbitrary endpoints. Transferring the torrent metadata is pretty trivial and can be done via a wide range of methods, and having that flexibility can be nice. Unlike HTTP, you get reasonable retry behavior on network hiccups. Also, more robust data integrity guarantees, though a manual hash test is probably a good idea eith…

Just be careful - unless you mark that torrent private it'll get posted to the DHT and crawlers like BtDig will pick it up and list it publicly. For this reason I prefer using something like Syncthing which is designed more with this purpose in mind.

Its trivial to disable PEX and DHT in any reasonable client

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by icebraining »

mistrial9 wrote: post #170
kilroy123 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once sent a huge file over airdrop and was shocked how much faster it was then sending through the local LAN.

some copy methods verify and check during the transfer operation, others do not, so the final speeds are very different between them

The major difference is that Airdrop establishes a direct WiFi connection, bypassing the router completely.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by temp007007 »

akerro wrote: post #33

>I'm also curious on how you'd send 10TB or more. For my 12TiB of data I use Syncthing when I need to sync them more often, rsync. I used rsync several times for billions of smaller files totalling to 300GiB, but really all depending on how I connect nodes. I prefer syncthing, but when only ssh is available, then rsync is good too. Currently largest synced directory by syncthing (that shares usage stats) is over 6138…

Is there an iOS client for Syncthing?

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by mkl »

cprecioso wrote: post #113
GRBurst wrote: post #46

It depends in whether I want to send it to someone in the local network or through the internet. For local network: I use miniserve ( https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve ) which is just a simple http server. There are similar tools for when I want to share it from the smartphone. Through the internet it really varies: Sometimes it is Firefox send ( https://send.firefox.com/ ) For photos, I use a self hosted photo…

Firefox Send doesn’t work anymore

That's unfortunate. That was my go-to method.

From https://send.firefox.com/:

"Firefox Send is temporarily unavailable while we work on product improvements.

We appreciate your patience while we make the Firefox Send experience better."

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by orionblastar »

arsome wrote: post #179
livueta wrote: post #86

Bittorrent. No, really. Lots of nice behaviors when transferring large amounts of data between arbitrary endpoints. Transferring the torrent metadata is pretty trivial and can be done via a wide range of methods, and having that flexibility can be nice. Unlike HTTP, you get reasonable retry behavior on network hiccups. Also, more robust data integrity guarantees, though a manual hash test is probably a good idea eith…

Just be careful - unless you mark that torrent private it'll get posted to the DHT and crawlers like BtDig will pick it up and list it publicly. For this reason I prefer using something like Syncthing which is designed more with this purpose in mind.

Sort of like Limewire sharing your documents directory?

They have MuWire now: https://muwire.com/

Not private but public sharing.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by kps »

chillfox wrote: post #211
godelski wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've sent flash media through mail without problems. As well as hard drives with disks. Never had an issue.

I would assume that mail scanning is similar to the x-ray scanner at the airport, and any SD card or hard drive that cant handle that is useless. Could you imagine having your laptop and camera wiped every time you jumped on a plane.

TSA opened my checked luggage to manually inspect the box of 9-track tapes.
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