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sAdam
02-16-2003, 10:39 PM
i am currently sharing 42.2 gig of a 60 gig drive. almost all of it is dvd rip movies. in browsing other peeps files i've only come across 1 or 2 users (out of hundreds i've checked) that come close, and many of their files are audio tracks. i know there must be many people sharing way more than me. if u are one or have seen a godly shared directory, add to this thread.

J'Pol
02-16-2003, 10:45 PM
Welcome

Go have a look in Direct Connect.

A lot of the hubs have minimum limits, for shared files. Some are 100Gb and above.

The available data just now is around 19Tb.

The downloads are genuine peer to peer. One person to one person, not many to one.

You are an excellent sharer, with a high quantity of files. However you are not even close to some of the big boys.

Cheers

JimF

PS the available data of 19Tb is for the hub I am using. There are many, many more.

Paulus_1980
02-16-2003, 10:46 PM
Hai im sharing about 80 gig of Video but i dont know if its all DVD rip but i do know they are all huge files.

Ive used DC in the past, only draw back is its limited network because u have login to a HUB like Edonkey.

Plus side is the fact that most ppl are braodband users.

J'Pol
02-16-2003, 10:53 PM
Originally posted by Paulus_1980@16 February 2003 - 23:46
Hai im sharing about 80 gig of Video but i dont know if its all DVD rip but i do know they are all huge files.

Ive used DC in the past, only draw back is its limited network because u have login to a HUB like Edonkey.

Plus side is the fact that most ppl are braodband users.
Good point

The hubs also insist on numbers of slots open and speed of connection.

Cheers

JimF

PS I hope this doesn't come across as spamming. However if you want to whap out your boaby, don't be surprised to find out it's not as big as you thought.

sAdam
02-16-2003, 11:11 PM
can someone post a link to a place i can get more info about direct connect.
thanx

Paulus_1980
02-16-2003, 11:16 PM
www.neo-modus.com

WOEI

J'Pol
02-16-2003, 11:30 PM
Originally posted by Paulus_1980@16 February 2003 - 23:46
Hai im sharing about 80 gig of Video but i dont know if its all DVD rip but i do know they are all huge files.

Ive used DC in the past, only draw back is its limited network because u have login to a HUB like Edonkey.

Plus side is the fact that most ppl are braodband users.
Paulus

I hear what you say. I use eMule and sometimes connecting can be a pain, though it has got better recently.

With DC I connect within a matter of seconds. Maybe I have been lucky in that I have put a couple of good hubs in my favourites. Or maybe it has grown a lot since you were there.

Cheers

JimF

PS As an homage to Martha, use Soulseek for music.

Paulus_1980
02-16-2003, 11:44 PM
JimF,


I was going to start DC on my server again soon, when i find that kazaa network has giving me what i wanted.

So in a while ill b using & giving a Kazaa & DC network connection.

Cheers Mate

J'Pol
02-16-2003, 11:53 PM
Originally posted by Paulus_1980@17 February 2003 - 00:44
JimF,


I was going to start DC on my server again soon, when i find that kazaa network has giving me what i wanted.

So in a while ill b using & giving a Kazaa & DC network connection.

Cheers Mate
Good Lad

I use common shared folders for K++, DC, eMule and Soulseek. It's all the same files, so it doesn't cost me anything. However it means that they are being shared on all of the networks.

Cheers

JimF

sAdam
02-17-2003, 12:45 AM
thanks guys,
i currently have both DC and klite runnin and am doin a comparo. seems like u hafta find the right user with DC for fast transfers. o yeah, what happens if the guy ur dl'ing from on DC goes offline? do u hafta wait for that particular user b4 u can resume the dl?

KinkoStinky
02-17-2003, 01:37 AM
Probably a lot of people will say they share more then they really do share. Anyways, I share a little over 14 gigs...

I_DONT_SHARE_PORN
02-17-2003, 02:02 AM
i'm currently sharing, 3,500 kB

KinkoStinky
02-17-2003, 02:15 AM
Originally posted by I_DONT_SHARE_PORN@16 February 2003 - 18:02
i'm currently sharing, 3,500 kB
I share about 15,831,580,672 bytes...

xJacobxDxCx
02-17-2003, 03:46 AM
i share 10.9GB (mp3s, vids, games)

FireATM
02-17-2003, 04:55 AM
6.23 GB. Had to erase hd for getting XP. Wasted all my games. :( But i saved my MP3s. Whew :lol:

TJX
02-17-2003, 05:43 AM
I share between 9-15 GB at the moment, I used to share +60 GB but people never downloaded most of it so I took it away and I needed the space....its crazy when you see some people on Direct Connect sharing 700 GB of good files....

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
02-17-2003, 06:20 AM
;) About 15 gig whenever I am on.

RPerry
02-17-2003, 06:54 AM
12 gigs, MP3's, and software.

tilen76
02-17-2003, 08:45 AM
17-19 GB, MP3s, software, games, movies, all high quality (ISOs, DVDrips, ...).

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
02-17-2003, 10:12 AM
<_< Why did this get moved?It was in filesharing? "Talk here about filesharing in general" is what it says.


If we don&#39;t get some more rooms soon this place is going to even be confusing to us veterans.Because we don&#39;t know where to put anything anymore.

jetje
02-17-2003, 10:27 AM
These posts are always in the Lounge and as being our Postwhore you had to know that, dont come up you never saw these questions in here :D

At the moment around 120 gig 3 machines so 40 gig each. Most gigs for movies and ISO&#39;s. But total files must be mp3 (to please FC but i never saw him download something from me :D ). Also share around 1.000 album covers (since that coversite dissapeared).

tracydani
02-17-2003, 10:39 AM
I was sharing about 70 gigs, but I took off most of my sitcoms so now it is 50 or so gigs of dvd rips a few software and a dozen or so songs.

I&#39;ll probably bump it back up when I re-install xp on my main drive, but till then I gotta keep it clean.

vegeta
02-17-2003, 12:17 PM
to be honest :unsure: i am sharing about :unsure: 30gigs.

is it less :huh:

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
02-17-2003, 12:19 PM
Originally posted by vegeta@17 February 2003 - 07:17
to be honest :unsure: i am sharing about :unsure: 30gigs.

is it less :huh:
:huh: Is it less then what? :huh:

nincompoop
02-17-2003, 01:04 PM
Originally posted by FuNkY CaPrIcOrN@17 February 2003 - 07:20
;) About 15 gig whenever I am on.
It seems to me, that you are always on :rolleyes:

I´ll share over 200+ verified moviefiles none under 700 mb...
but I´ll only share 17 albums (separeted mp3s) of mike oldfield
and no software except nemocodec and xvid.
It´s amazing what 2x160gb and 1x120gb of harddisks can store :P :P

PS: fuck riaa B) B) B)

regards Mr.M

xJacobxDxCx
02-17-2003, 03:51 PM
i am on dialup and share 10.9 gigz. most of it is mp3s the rest are movies and games

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
02-17-2003, 03:56 PM
Originally posted by nincompoop@17 February 2003 - 08:04
It´s amazing what 2x160gb and 1x120gb of harddisks can store :P :P


:o Yeah I bet.....all I got is 40GB. <_<


:P I&#39;ll be sharing my whole collection one day...just need to get me a 200 gig WD drive. :P

imported_computerfreak76
02-17-2003, 04:08 PM
im currently sharing
22.4 gigs of mp3&#39;s
42.5 gigs of movies
7.2 gigs of software

ShareDaddy
02-17-2003, 04:12 PM
I am not at home right now so exact numbers are impossible, however I have 2 internal 120 Gb hard drives, my shared total is around 100 Gb&#39;s and growing. Mostly movies, but I do have some mp3&#39;s and pictures.

SuperJude™
02-17-2003, 05:38 PM
I have 20 gigs that I&#39;m sharing.

I have more files than that of course but I altrernate what I share.

-SJ™

puremindmatters
02-17-2003, 05:41 PM
28 gigs of tv shows
14 gigs of movies
3 gigs of audio and docs

worthf
02-17-2003, 09:35 PM
80 Gig of a 200 Gig HD. Still growing though because anything I download I share. It&#39;s the P2P philosophy. :D

bowser
02-18-2003, 12:50 AM
I&#39;m sharing about 22Gb.. mostly dvd screeners..

Gambo
02-18-2003, 04:29 PM
I&#39;m sharing 7.13Gb, my whole D:&#092; drive. Mostly Mp3 though some software, well all I have anyway. Only 753Mb left. I need a new drive I think, can&#39;t even hibernate now, bugger :D

KinkoStinky
02-18-2003, 04:58 PM
Well, I share a lot. If I were to tell you you wouldn&#39;t have belived me. So I took a screen shot&#33;

http://pics.paulsonator.com/users/NeoShoyru/Shared.jpg

Luca_Snipes
02-18-2003, 05:19 PM
Like others here I have the same shared on both Kazaa & direct Connect, at the moment it&#39;s around 209GB :lol:
as the pic below - i&#39;m not the biggest sharer in the world :(

http://7embry.no-ip.com/share1.jpg

Oni
02-18-2003, 06:25 PM
Im sharing 47GD,,,rips,,mp3,,software

Oni :ph34r:

P.S just downloaded dc ,, ;)

KinkoStinky
02-18-2003, 06:42 PM
Im still sharing over 700 gigs...

imported_computerfreak76
02-18-2003, 06:43 PM
neoshoyru im curious as to what kind of files you have that average out to 1.77 gigs a file?

Supernatural
02-19-2003, 01:56 PM
Originally posted by computerfreak76@18 February 2003 - 13:43
neoshoyru im curious as to what kind of files you have that average out to 1.77 gigs a file?
Me too. :blink:

TRshady
02-19-2003, 02:10 PM
I share 8 GB, my slave hdd is devoted to kazaa :D , How can people share 700GB??????

J'Pol
02-19-2003, 06:06 PM
Originally posted by TRshady@19 February 2003 - 15:10
I share 8 GB, my slave hdd is devoted to kazaa :D , How can people share 700GB??????
An intriguing question. Must be a reasonably serious server, with the capacity to add several large drives together.

For a normal home PC without doing some tweeking the most you can have is really 4 hard drives. 2 on the primary IDE and two on the secondary. At say 200GB each that would give you 800GB, but that would use up all of your available channels, so no DVD or CD.

Unless of course you either added extra IDE chanels. Or ran some of the stuff through scsi. You could also do it using external drives, either USB2 or Firewire.

Whatever way you did it it wouldn&#39;t be cheap.

The other thing is that it would be spread about various folders and not look like one big 700Gb shared folder. For it all to be in the one folder, now that would be a good trick. Unless you used some sort of software to make it look that way, but why bother.

I think the server is the only viable option

I have a 40Gb hard drive. I share around 13 GB, it fluctuates, but it is normally around that amount. It is in various locations, as that is how I like to store it. Movies in one place, mp3&#39;s in another etc. I use K++, Direct Connect, EMule and Soulseek, though not all at the same time (well sometimes). All of the shared folders are available to all of the networks. Basically I share everything on my PC that may be of any use to anyone else.


Cheers

JimF

Luca_Snipes
02-19-2003, 06:27 PM
The other thing is that it would be spread about various folders and not look like one big 700Gb shared folder. For it all to be in the one folder, now that would be a good trick. Unless you used some sort of software to make it look that way, but why bother.

Most modern motherboards come with RAID chips on them, so you can put 8 drives on, or in my case 6HDD, DVD, CD-RW. these also alow you to span drives in hardware, eg - 4 x 200GB disks look like one 800GB disk to any OS that you run.
As for cheap - an average PCI IDE RAID card now costs approx. £30.


As for the server option - most only have 40GB or so, these days everthing lives on SAN&#39;s (Storage Area Networks) (£1m plus) or NAS (Network Attached Storage) (£000&#39;s)

TRshady
02-19-2003, 06:31 PM
wow, thanks for that Jim F.
Interesting, I would&#39;nt go that far though if I Wanted a Big hdd.
And I though my new 40GB hard drive was big.................

spudlover
02-19-2003, 06:49 PM
My 20GB of mp3s, apps and movies don&#39;t sound all that good now :huh: :o

imported_computerfreak76
02-19-2003, 07:41 PM
its kinda like the old saying its not how BIG it is, its HOW you use it.

J'Pol
02-19-2003, 07:42 PM
Originally posted by Luca_Snipes@19 February 2003 - 19:27

The other thing is that it would be spread about various folders and not look like one big 700Gb shared folder. For it all to be in the one folder, now that would be a good trick. Unless you used some sort of software to make it look that way, but why bother.

Most modern motherboards come with RAID chips on them, so you can put 8 drives on, or in my case 6HDD, DVD, CD-RW. these also alow you to span drives in hardware, eg - 4 x 200GB disks look like one 800GB disk to any OS that you run.
As for cheap - an average PCI IDE RAID card now costs approx. £30.


As for the server option - most only have 40GB or so, these days everthing lives on SAN&#39;s (Storage Area Networks) (£1m plus) or NAS (Network Attached Storage) (£000&#39;s)
Thanks for the info, very informative.

How do your 8 drives connect. Do you have 4 physical connectors on the board, and connect two devices to each as master and slave. Or are their two connectors on the board, on which you connect four drives to each. Presumably one master and three slaves.

On reading again it appears that you had to add two RAID IDE cards. So you had the 2 connectors on the motherboard, giving you your 4 normal devices, plus 2 added as PCI cards, giving you your extra 4 devices. Hence the 8 devices. I have to say that for someone like me, that would constitute tweaking. It would also, if I read you correctly tie up two PCI devices, not so much of a problem nowadays as they aren&#39;t really used for a lot.

Where do you put all of the devices. If I am right about how you have connected them then no problem. But how do you connect them inside the box itself. I have a dvd a cd and 2hdd&#39;s. That fills my case, or at least the device slots. Where are you getting the extra four slots from. You must also have an excellent power supply, with 8 feeds, to run all of these devices. I know you can split the normal feeds in two using adaptors, but you still need a power supply that can cope.

Lets be honest you really need to have a large tower case, with 8 free slots, a top of the range power supply, with eight power connectors, two additional ide connectors, 4 200GB HDD&#39;s and some serious cooling going on. I can&#39;t see you having bought that at PC World. Neither can I see it as having been particularly cheap. It seems to be state of the art everything.

Whatever way you look at it that must have cost a few bar to put together. OK so I&#39;m jealous, but you can&#39;t be short of a bob or two to put a system like that together.

Like I said a bit of tweeking and not cheap.

Cheers

JimF

PS Why would you want it to act like one 800GB drive. I have a 40GB hard drive and I split it into partitions. Just curious

J'Pol
02-19-2003, 07:57 PM
In fact couldn&#39;t you describe your system as a RAID server.

Cheers

JimF

Luca_Snipes
02-19-2003, 08:01 PM
1) The RAID boards (or on board controlers) etc act like a normal IDE chain - you put 2 devices on a cable, so a RAID card has 2 extra channels on it - therefore 4 connectors, 4 cables with 2 devices on (did you get that - i lost my self :huh: )

In other words it give 2 extra physical connectors

2) I&#39;m running it all off a 350W PSU (OK so it&#39;s an Enermax, and they do cost a bit, but they good)

3) Just a standard Tower case - OK so it&#39;s a nice aluminum one...(mines a Coolermaster ATC210, which is only about 18" high btw)

4) Cost about £500 to do this sorta config with out monitors, and a non aluminum case

5) I don&#39;t use it all as one big disk - i know some people do, it was just an example

6) Do PC-World know what a PC is?? :blink:


edit: - fixing my description a bit - I hope&#33;