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What sort of figures would be involved?
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I'd be willing to chip in if required.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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The cloud storage services I've been seeing would range from $200-$250 yearly (approx. 128-160 pounds). It's possible a more DIY setup would cut costs, but I'm less familiar with how to set up something like that which would meet our needs (Matey's Clash backup currently sits at 187gb, which is all the shows in FLAC, some video, and some mp3).

Another option would be migrating to torrent services. There are a lot of advantages to that, but I need to look a lot more into what that would entail in terms of getting everything up and running.

In the meantime, the founders of the Pirate Bay have a storage locker operate called BayFiles: http://bayfiles.com/

It's supposedly legit, I wonder if it might meet our needs in the short- to medium-term.
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at least 4 times, i read the subject as "megalist shut down"...
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I've just tried uploading a 46MB file and it was going to take about 40 minutes. Is that reasonable for uploading? How long would the equivalent download take?

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dave202 wrote:I've just tried uploading a 46MB file and it was going to take about 40 minutes. Is that reasonable for uploading? How long would the equivalent download take?
If you scroll back a few posts matey says it's very simillar to Megaupload speeds.
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rcs wrote:at least 4 times, i read the subject as "megalist shut down"...
Well, it effectively is for now.
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Wolter wrote:
rcs wrote:at least 4 times, i read the subject as "megalist shut down"...
Well, it effectively is for now.
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rcs wrote:
Wolter wrote:
rcs wrote:at least 4 times, i read the subject as "megalist shut down"...
Well, it effectively is for now.
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Marky Dread wrote:
dave202 wrote:I've just tried uploading a 46MB file and it was going to take about 40 minutes. Is that reasonable for uploading? How long would the equivalent download take?
If you scroll back a few posts matey says it's very simillar to Megaupload speeds.
I said 40 minutes was about normal (actually better than average) for a 540MB file. 46MB in 40 minutes is really slow.
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For my past use of the boot collection, I'll pony up some dough for future generations who don't realize how badly they've been betrayed by the band.
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Flex wrote:In the meantime, the founders of the Pirate Bay have a storage locker operate called BayFiles: http://bayfiles.com/

It's supposedly legit, I wonder if it might meet our needs in the short- to medium-term.
Just tested with "Dreadzone - live at Sunrise" album, mp3, app. 100 mb and it took app. 7 minutes at an average speed of 250 mb/s wireless. Looks a lot faster than 2share or zShared... Anybody want the album and test the download speed as well...? here goes: http://bayfiles.com/file/1v59/ZBw9Kj/Dr ... e-2006.rar

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esmark wrote:
Flex wrote:In the meantime, the founders of the Pirate Bay have a storage locker operate called BayFiles: http://bayfiles.com/

It's supposedly legit, I wonder if it might meet our needs in the short- to medium-term.
Just tested with "Dreadzone - live at Sunrise" album, mp3, app. 100 mb and it took app. 7 minutes at an average speed of 250 mb/s wireless. Looks a lot faster than 2share or zShared... Anybody want the album and test the download speed as well...? here goes: http://bayfiles.com/file/1v59/ZBw9Kj/Dr ... e-2006.rar
Thanks ee, I downloaded the file took around 2.5 mins to download pretty good.
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matedog wrote:
Marky Dread wrote:
dave202 wrote:I've just tried uploading a 46MB file and it was going to take about 40 minutes. Is that reasonable for uploading? How long would the equivalent download take?
If you scroll back a few posts matey says it's very simillar to Megaupload speeds.
I said 40 minutes was about normal (actually better than average) for a 540MB file. 46MB in 40 minutes is really slow.
Must have read that as 460MB not 46MB. My bad.
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