Best services to share large files

Today we offer a useful cheat sheet compilation, which is always and everywhere to help find the best way to transfer a large file man.

Email

E-mail - it's convenient, but many popular email-services impose severe restrictions on the size of attachments. For example, in Gmail and Outlook every single file can not exceed 25 MB in size.

You can refuse to mail in favor of a more flexible solution, but if for whatever reason you can not do that, then you will simple Vijayanagar multi platform utility HJ-Split . With its help, the source file is divided into pieces of the desired size and embedded / transmitted parts, and then just as easily pasted on the side of the recipient.

Classic web storage

Well, actually if the file is large, then the best solution may be cloud storage: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and their analogs. Preference to a particular service here is usually given as a function of habit, but in extreme cases it is necessary to look at the possibility of limiting each store.

OneDrive pour allows a maximum file size to 2 GB.

" Yandex.Disk " has a limit of 10 GB, but you get something heavier than 2GB require desktop client.

Google Drive in this respect is much more powerful and eats file size up to 5 TB (5000 GB). Naturally, there is also a large file to be loaded by the client.

It is difficult to imagine a situation in which the user does not have enough features Google Drive, but just in case, Dropbox has no designated limit on individual file size. There is a desktop client? Next, pour it all online world! In the latter two cases, the restriction acts rather than the size of the file and the size of personal storage.

Area paranoid

Lovers of extreme secrecy is necessary to pay attention to the service frimiumWeTransfer . He does not ask to register and allows virtually anonymous file transfer up to 2GB directly from your browser, knowing only the email recipient.Bloodthirsty file will be stored here to seven days.

Area superparanoika

All of the above methods have one disadvantage: to pass something, you need that "something" to fill somewhere. Simply put, your data will be temporarily (or ever) be stored on remote servers. If such a perspective is not satisfied, then there is a variant called JustBeamIt , based on the principle of peer-to-peer.Transferred file will not be filled anywhere, and will run directly from the vac to the recipient. Web service wrapper supports Drag & Drop, and very easy to use. Drag the file, get the reference (lifetime links 10 minutes), pass it to the addressee in any suitable manner.

Another P2P-way transmission - service called Infinit . In addition to all that is able to the previous tool, Infinit support pause / resume downloads, and in the case of transfer video preview allows you to run immediately after the start of transmission.

Skype and other messengers

Modern and not very messengers reasonably effective file transfer. In this case, the maximum file size depends on the particular service. For example, the most popular Skype though slow, but it works on the same principle P2P and, in fact, has no limit on the size of the transmitted file.

This material affects only ways associated with using really popular products and services. There are many other cloud storage, FTP and dozens more or less convenient ways to transfer large file. If you have your elegant and simple option to transfer a large amount of data, share it in the comments.

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