The torrent file in question was created in December 2003 when sites like isoHunt, The Pirate Bay and were only a few months old and when Facebook and YouTube didn’t yet exist. We already crowned this one the oldest torrent back in 2005, and as of today it is still active with a few downloaders and only one seeder. The torrent file that has been around for the longest time according to our knowledge is The Matrix ASCII. The first commercial 1TB hard drive, one that could store the entire 746.70 GB, wasn’t released until 2007. Even in 2005 you would still had to invest $500 to get this much storage cheaply (5×160 GB). At the time, downloading a file of this size would have required a $4522 investment. In 2001 when BitTorrent first went public the cheapest hard drive cost $238.00, and that was for just 40 GB.
The 641.32 GB torrent has received a fair bit of attention from tech journalists and is well seeded at the moment.ĭownloading these torrents nowadays is a lot easier and cheaper than a few years ago. This torrent was released 4 months ago and is still active with a handful of downloaders ( update, this one is even bigger).Īnother sizeable torrent that was released just a few days ago is the archive of the late that was shut down by Yahoo last year.
There are several huge torrent files active at the moment, but the record goes to a torrent with a 746.70 GB collection of all 2010 World Cup soccer matches (~ 6GB per half). torrent file that downloads the most data, not the size of the. When we refer to the largest torrent we mean the single. Today we’ll bring you a list of 5 single torrent files that each broke an impressive record, from the largest through to the oldest, and the one that transferred most data. In the near half decade that TorrentFreak has been covering the latest BitTorrent news and developments, every now and then we also have time to discuss BitTorrent trivia.
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