Comments on: Giganews Increase Binary Retention To 50 Days!

By: anonymouizer

anonymouizer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:49:40 +0000

They now have 250 days of retention and I max my speed at 20mb with them 24×7x365

By: ForeverTheGM

ForeverTheGM — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:35:09 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:23:42 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:20:17 +0000

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

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:18:33 +0000

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

By: burtonator

burtonator — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:05:05 +0000

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