What Is The Biggest File You Have Ever Downloaded?

[Dude111]

The biggest file I ever downloaded (So far) was a Windows Media Player video about 9/11 if I remember right..... It was over 900 Megs and I was wondering if my ISP would be mad I was using that much of thier bandwidth!! (But I dont use that much HARDILY EVER so I figured they wouldnt mind)

 

[Crono]

Probably Star Citizen. Been a while since I fired it up or downloaded it, but I think around 30GB.

There are bigger games, but the final version may be one of the biggest downloads.

 

[ultimatebob]

Probably a CentOS Linux DVD .ISO installer file. Those run about 4 GB on average.

Steam or my XBox One have probably downloaded much larger game installs than that, but that process is hidden behind the scenes and I have no idea how big the files it's downloading actually are.

The biggest upload I ever did was my entire photo collection to my Onedrive account. That was about 25 GB, and it took about 2 days to complete. Damn you Comcast, and your insanely slow unload speeds!

 

[John Connor]

About 16GB.

 

[shortylickens]

Biggest single file was probably close to 14gb. A high quality bluray rip of a 3 hour porn compilation.


Torrent, of course.

 

[cbrunny]

FFXIII on Steam is ~60GB. That seems notable.

 

[cbrunny]

And fwiw, you should never feel bad about using your internet connection. Any ISP that charges for bandwidth will never get my money.

 

[shortylickens]

FFXIII on Steam is ~60GB. That seems notable.

But I doubt its a single file.

 

[brianmanahan]

wget -r http://forums.anandtech.com

just kidding i think it was the latest assassins creed at like 40 gb

 

[walkur]

A single file? ... probably a 150+GB nasa Raw Photo.
Correction it was a 80GB photo.

Although they appear to have an even larger one now... 194GB!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...xel-interactive-image-Milky-Way-revealed.html

 

[vi edit]

wget -r http://forums.anandtech.com

just kidding i think it was the latest assassins creed at like 40 gb

Yeah, Xbone games off of XBL are probably the largest things I've downloaded.

 

[JTsyo]

But I doubt its a single file.

I would think it comes packaged in one file that is compressed and then extracts all the files.

 

[bbhaag]

It was a torrent of almost every DOS game ever released call Win3xO. It was right around 320gb.

 

[sdifox]

The biggest file I ever downloaded (So far) was a Windows Media Player video about 9/11 if I remember right..... It was over 900 Megs and I was wondering if my ISP would be mad I was using that much of thier bandwidth!! (But I dont use that much HARDILY EVER so I figured they wouldnt mind)

The 90s called and they want their modem back.

 

[Strk]

My guess is it was something through Steam, but not sure if that is a single file or not. My guess is the latter though.

 

[renz20003]

Probably the master chief collection or titanfall

 

[1sikbITCH]

I'm still working on it.

 

[clamum]

As a group of files, probably a few tens of gigs. Literally a single file, jeez, no idea. Probably 10-20 gigs or so.

 

[maddogchen]

Windows 10 install

 

[WT]

Windows 10 install

In most cases, we didn't WANT it, we just ... GOT it.

 

[yh125d]

40gb, blu-ray of The Return of the King extended edition in a single MKV

 

[Art&Science]

I copied an 8TB database to my workstation yesterday... the problem is, it was supposed to be 12TB.

 

[mnewsham]

I've had some Bluray remux's be over 70GB, but they are generally split around 34GB into two or more parts so not a single file.

Not talking single file and easily several hundred GBs. I know of at least 3 things I have downloaded in the past 2 months that were 150Gb+

 

[balloonshark]

Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One at 63GB.

 

[lxskllr]

English Wikipedia I think. If I remember right, it was ~8GB compressed.