Giganews Increase Binary Retention To 50 Days!


I Just received an email saying that Giganews have increased their binary retention to 50 days. I would love to know how much storage that requires. My ISP only has about 4 days retention and doesn’t cover a 1/3 of the groups Giga does but that still equates to Terabytes of storage.

I’m still amazed that more broadband users don’t use newsgroups as they are not that hard to configure and use once you work it out.
Probably just as well though as most ISPs would probably melt down if their users started using newsgroups.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Email them and ask! :)
    I’m curious too!
    Kevin

  2. #2

    ok I did ;-). Lets see if they reply…….

  3. #3

    There is currently about 2.7 terabytes of data ADDED to the usenet daily. So if you want 50 days retention, you must have 50 times 2.7 which is 135 terabyes of space…this is not counting the extra space required for RAID configuration. It would be easy to guess that giganews carries about 250-280 terabytes of space for that much retention.
    They also have to be high speed drives also (10,000 rpm or higher) so you are looking at an investment close to $750,000 just for the hardware. Pretty cheap huh? lol

  4. #4

    Meant to tell you, if you are interested, Newsdemon has about the same retention and does not speed limit their accounts like giganews does. Giganews will slow you down once you reach a certain download threshold per month. Newsdemon's unlimited plan for $24.99 US is about the best around. I have had one for over 6 months now and downloaded about 900 Gb per month and it still crushes the speeds at 3-4 mbps.

  5. #5

    They now have 200 days of retention and I sustain my max download speed of 10mbps with them.

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