pds41: ZoomPlatform use 2GB files (Innosetup uses this as a maximum file capacity unless you dev it further yourself)
OK, one other place on the entire internet. :)
Timboli: If only we all had great reliable high speed connections.
I certainly don't. It's not relevant, however. It hasn't stopped me from downloading 20GB+ files from GOG.
But to be honest, I have never understood this love affair that some have with huge files. And there are many good sound reasons to avoid them.
All of those reasons are false or based on tech that was in use literally decades ago, not today.
It is also very akin to putting all your eggs in one basket, never wise to do.
It is absolutely nothing like that in any way.
Huge files are a pain to move around, they also make your drive work harder, heat up more.
That's...incredibly stupid, sorry. It's flat-out wrong. There is no real difference between copying 1 large file and a bunch of small files. It's the same amount of data either way. Multiple files actually require more work (an inconsequential amount more, but not zero), and take up a bit more space due to padding out extra sectors where needed.
With smaller files you have the option of doing things piecemeal ... in stages. Which is great for lots of reasons.
It's not great for any reason. It's more steps for no gain.
If you are doing the right thing with your backups, then they will be on multiple hard drives. If one 4 GB file gets corrupted, you just replace it fairly quickly with the same file from another backup. Having to replace a 100 Gb file is another matter, it isn't quick and your source or destination drive could die from overheating during the process. The larger the file, the more chance of that.
False. If your hard drive is dying just from transferring a file, it's extremely defective and will equally die whether it's 100GB or 1GB. Files are already divided into small sectors on disk, which can be scattered all over the place depending on fragmentation. This theoretical "but but but corruption" very rarely happens in the first place so it doesn't make any practical sense to treat that as the default.
Archiving is more reliable and safer to use with smaller files.
It's not. Again, Mac/Linux installers are one file. This is a Windows-only issue that exists for no good reason.
For GOG to provide complete large downloads, it would mean keeping an additional copy of many games on their servers
They already do this. How do you think you can download older versions? You have to use Galaxy, annoyingly enough, but the data is there and could be made available as offline installers if they wanted to.
The Stockholm Syndrome is strong with this one....
