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Send 100 GB files, or 500 GB, or 1 TB: how long it takes and what it costs

Boita for sending 100 GB, 500 GB or 1 TB files is a share link, the desktop app or a watch folder over an engine that fills your line, with resume after drops in the desktop app — 100 GB in about 30 minutes and 1 TB in about five hours on Pro — with a checksum per file and no per-GB fee — a job Boita, the large-file transfer workspace, is built for.

A 100 GB file is too big for email and most consumer sharing links, and slow enough over an ordinary upload that people still post drives. Here is what limits the transfer, three ways to send it with Boita, and how long each size takes per plan.

A Boita delivery page as the recipient sees it: “EP04 — review cut v3” with a preview of the video, the sender’s name, the expiry date, a message, the file list with sizes and per-file Play and Review buttons, and the total size.
The recipient page: no account, nothing to install, a checksum on every file.

Why 100 GB does not fit the usual tools

Email stops at tens of megabytes. Consumer sharing tools cap each transfer, a few gigabytes free and a few hundred paid, and expire the link after days; the upload runs in a browser tab over TCP, and a dropped Wi-Fi sends you back to the start. Per-GB services take 100 GB and bill for every gigabyte.

What happens over TCP when the server is far away

An ordinary upload is limited by distance, not by your line. TCP waits a round trip to learn a packet was lost, then halves its rate; on a long route with a little loss, a 1 Gbps office connection delivers a small fraction of itself. Boita’s accelerated transfer engine runs over UDP with its own rate control, climbs to your line rate and holds it whatever the distance, in parallel sessions sized to your plan; if UDP is blocked it falls back to HTTPS.

Three ways to send it with Boita

From the browser, with nothing to install: sign in, drop the files, get a link. The upload runs over the standard HTTPS path, and an interrupted upload starts again; it suits tens of gigabytes when nothing can be installed.

From the desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux, for full speed and resume: drop files on the send window, right-click “Send with Boita” in Finder or Explorer, or point a watch folder at an export folder; on a server, the Linux agent and boita CLI do the same.

Through a portal, when you are receiving: a link the other side uploads into, with a form, file rules, a deadline and reminders, each upload in its own inbox folder.

  • Browser: nothing to install, HTTPS path, slower, no resume
  • Desktop app: full line rate and resume; agent and CLI for servers
  • Portal: the other side uploads into your folder

How long 100 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB take, by plan

Throughput is the lower of your plan ceiling and your line. Plan ceilings are Free 20 Mbps, Pro 450 Mbps, Scale 2.25 Gbps and Enterprise 4.5 Gbps and up, from 45 Mbps sessions (10 Mbps on Free). 100 GB is 800,000 megabits: about 30 minutes on Pro over a 1 Gbps line, plan-limited at 450 Mbps; about 2.2 hours on Pro over a 100 Mbps home line, line-limited; about 13 minutes on Scale over a 1 Gbps line, line-limited. On Free the arithmetic gives about 11 hours at 20 Mbps, but Free includes 10 GB of storage, so 100 GB is a Pro job.

500 GB is 4,000,000 megabits: about 2.5 hours on Pro and 1.1 hours on Scale over a 1 Gbps line. 1 TB is 8,000,000 megabits: about 4.9 hours on Pro; on Scale about 2.2 hours over a 1 Gbps line and about an hour over 2.5 Gbps, where the 2.25 Gbps ceiling takes over. An ordinary TCP upload depends on distance and loss; the calculator on the home page models your route.

What the recipient sees, and what it costs

The recipient gets a page with the file list and sizes and downloads without an account, in the browser or at full speed with resume in the free desktop app. You see who viewed and downloaded what, with the checksum recorded at transfer time verified on every download; Scale and above export the receipt as PDF and CSV. Every link has an expiry; add a download limit, a password or recipient verification (Pro and above), or a passphrase that encrypts the files before they leave your machine.

Plans are flat: Free ₹0 with 10 GB, Pro ₹499 with 1 TB, Scale ₹7,999 with 10 TB, Enterprise custom, in local currency outside India. No per-GB fee, no download charges, no size cap.

Questions people ask

Boita for sending 100 GB to 1 TB files, in answers.

Written the way people ask an assistant, and published the same way in products.json and llms.txt. More in the full FAQ.

Who uses this: a lab sending a 200 GB BAM; an engineer sending a 100 GB simulation result; a data scientist sending a 500 GB shard; an operator sending a 1 TB disk image; a surveyor sending a 300 GB point cloud; an editor sending a 400 GB master.

How do I send a 100 GB file?

Upload it to Boita from the desktop app or the browser and send a share link; the recipient needs no account. Boita has no file-size cap; only your storage limits it. On Pro, 100 GB uploads in about 30 minutes on a fast line.

How long does 500 GB or 1 TB take?

Time = size ÷ min(45 Mbps × sessions, your line), and sessions are per file — a job of many files spreads across them, one single file moves in one session. On Pro (10 sessions) 500 GB of files is about 2.5 hours and 1 TB about five; on Scale over a 1 Gbps line 1 TB is about two hours. The planner at https://boita.io/calculators asks how many files and does your numbers.

What does it cost to send 1 TB?

Nothing per GB. Pro (1 TB storage) is ₹499 a month; Scale (10 TB) ₹7,999. Downloads are free.

Will it survive a dropped connection at 90 percent?

Yes, from the desktop app: it picks up where it stopped and never re-sends completed files. From a browser, an interrupted file starts again.

Can I send 100 GB on Free?

No: Free has 10 GB of storage and two sessions at 10 Mbps. 100 GB needs Pro, with 1 TB of storage and the desktop app.

Does the recipient need an account or the app?

No. They open a page and download in the browser; the free app is optional.

What if my upload is interrupted?

In the desktop app it resumes by itself where it stopped; from a browser or the phone app it starts again. Completed files are never re-sent.

Is there a maximum file size?

No; your plan’s storage quota is the only limit.

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