If it's a zip, chances are the full thing needs to be downloaded.
If it's multiple zips, you could get some stuff from it, but then again you may get a file that spans into another zip and it won't work.
If it's loose files, you can pick and choose. 99% of the time the full file has to download before you can use it.
However if it's a video there's a small chance you can view it as it downloads.
In most all cases you have to wait for it to download.
How long it takes?
Two factors: the amount of network throughput sending, and how fast you can download.
Can it be stopped?
If it's written to a blockchain, chances are no.
If it's a torrent, then every single seeder must be wiped out for that to happen. But if just 1 person has the full thing, they can come back online and then it will be seeded to the people.
Shutting down a torrent is pretty hard.. it's like whack a mole. Could happen they get them all but another pops up
BTW 31 TB is pretty massive. Very few people will have that kind of space handy right now, since the largest drive you can get is 8-18TB.
Downloading 31TB is going to test your patience. If any anons experienced the 1,200, 2,400 4,800, 9,600 baud, or 14.4bps internet , they will be able to testify too.
I was on BBS systems with just 300 baud back in the early 80s.
31TB would take many days just to copy from one set of drives to another. It would take months to years to download from the internet. And it doesn't much matter how fast your connection is, if the source can't put it out fast enough.
Sorry i don't know what's going on with this 31gb data file.. i must have missed this, do you have links? if it's sending a blockchain message this is a different story.
Blockchain kind of works like this:
100 computers agree that a database is set up a specific way. Computer 101 wants to make a change to the database, the request goes to all the 100 computers (nodes), and they do some checks and balances and report "good" or "bad", and when enough of them verify it's good, it gets written and all computers accept the new data.
Ok so the way it works is this:
Can you open it as it downloads?
If it's a zip, chances are the full thing needs to be downloaded.
If it's multiple zips, you could get some stuff from it, but then again you may get a file that spans into another zip and it won't work.
If it's loose files, you can pick and choose. 99% of the time the full file has to download before you can use it.
However if it's a video there's a small chance you can view it as it downloads.
In most all cases you have to wait for it to download.
How long it takes?
Two factors: the amount of network throughput sending, and how fast you can download.
Can it be stopped?
If it's written to a blockchain, chances are no.
If it's a torrent, then every single seeder must be wiped out for that to happen. But if just 1 person has the full thing, they can come back online and then it will be seeded to the people.
Shutting down a torrent is pretty hard.. it's like whack a mole. Could happen they get them all but another pops up
BTW 31 TB is pretty massive. Very few people will have that kind of space handy right now, since the largest drive you can get is 8-18TB.
Downloading 31TB is going to test your patience. If any anons experienced the 1,200, 2,400 4,800, 9,600 baud, or 14.4bps internet , they will be able to testify too.
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I was on BBS systems with just 300 baud back in the early 80s.
31TB would take many days just to copy from one set of drives to another. It would take months to years to download from the internet. And it doesn't much matter how fast your connection is, if the source can't put it out fast enough.
Maybe some geeky anon running a RAID 0 setup with 2 18TB's could pull this off
Sorry i don't know what's going on with this 31gb data file.. i must have missed this, do you have links? if it's sending a blockchain message this is a different story.
Blockchain kind of works like this:
100 computers agree that a database is set up a specific way. Computer 101 wants to make a change to the database, the request goes to all the 100 computers (nodes), and they do some checks and balances and report "good" or "bad", and when enough of them verify it's good, it gets written and all computers accept the new data.