"With 220 Gigabit/s of Internet connectivity and 4.5 Petabytes of storage, RapidShare is one of the biggest and fastest web hosters world wide."
"1-Click web hosting for free. With our 1-Click web hosting solution you can put your files online for free with just one click fast and easy. You decide, who will be able to access your file. Only people knowing the exact download URL are able to download your file. Your file will be deleted when it has not been accessed for more than 90 days or you use your delete link."
If you never heard about Rapidshare before, then let me introduce to you the rocking file sharing server ever. I use rapidshare to download HD movies, musics & TV series. I subscribe to the premium account so that I can download mutiple files at one time with accelerated speed. The premium account price is 4.50 EUR per month. If you subscribe longer, they will give you a discount.
Rapidshare allows you to upload and share your files with a max file size of 100mb per file. However you can upload unlimited files to the server for free. Basically, rapidshare uses 2 main file formats for file sharing, that is winrar and hj split files.
The speed of downloading is amazing. I usually get 120kbps for single file download. I can download a 700MB DVD rip movie in 2 hours tops (if no broken link).
As default, windows does not have a good software to track your multiple downloads. And if you download breaks or you accidently closes the window, that's it. All gone. You have to redo it again. I use Free Download Manager to manage my mutiple downloads and it resumes when it breaks or the next time I turn back on my pc. The best part is this software is absolutely free!
The reason why rapidshare download faster than torrent is because rapidshare downloads from a high speed centralise server. If you use torrent, you are actually downloading from a different individual PCs or servers for a different files. And if the other end cancel the seeding, your download speed will drop or even stop. Rapidshare does not stop the downloading and the speed is quite consistent as it centralise the downloading from the main server.
Rapidshare has 4.5 Petabytes of storage space. (1 GB=1000 MB, 1TB=1000 GB, 1PB=1000TB=1,000,000GB)
I use rapidshare to download my favourite TV series, Heroes (720p HD). There are many forums and blogs which share their rapidshare files. Just google it and add the word rapidshare after the search term, and most of the time I get what I'm looking for.
I think the Internet is man's greatest invention. It beats the wheel big time!
