5 Reason why Rapidshare is better than Torrents.

January 14th, 2009 | by admin |

Torrents are being used by millions of peoples nowadays because we can find almost any file we want lots of pirated softwares are also available on torrent but there are reason due to which i always avoid torrent.I prefer rapidshare rather than torrent as rapidshare also has got billions of files with it petabyte of hard drives storage.

The reasons are given below.

1) Requires Client

Torrents are downloaded by downloading a single file with .torrent extension which has the size of about some KBs after downloading that file we can open that file in any P2P client to download actual contents of torrent and this is the one reason that i avoid torrent because for this we have to install additional software which takes some resources and some additional efforts for beginners.

In rapidshare we don’t have to install any additional software it just requires a browser with javascript enabled which most of the new browsers have.

2) Spyware & Trojans

Spyware is another very important reason due to which lots of peoples including me are avoiding torrents some files we download have spyware or trojans even some P2P clients also have spyware and trojans so always use a well known P2P Software.Check out 20 P2P file sharing softwares

We cannot deny the fact that the files downloaded from rapidshare also has spyware and trojans sometimes but the probability of spyware and trojan is very low as compare to torrents.

3) Hosted on User’s Computers

Torrents are being hosted by home or office user by using a P2P software from his/her computer so the reliability and speed of torrents depends on bandwidth and processing power of the computer from which the file is shared.

In rapidshare files are hosted on powerful servers of rapidshare with petabyte of storage and gigabytes of bandwidht so we always get maximum speed of downloading.

4) Slow Speed

The main concern of most of the users is that the speed of torrents is much slower.While downloading some files from torrent i noticed the speed 1 – 5 KBps which is really slow for my 1Mbps link.One possible reason of slow speed of torrent is mentioned in point # 3.

Downloading speed is alway best at rapidshare most of the time when i download files from rapidshare while being a free user is about 110 KBps and if you are a premium user than you can enjoy more cool features like maximum speed,resuming,multiple downloads and much more.

5) Minimum Life

Life of torrents is very minimum as i mentioned in Point # 3 that torrents are hosted on user’s computers rather than dedicated servers so the life is also minimum suppose if users shuts its computer down the file will be unavailable or the internet of the user gets disconnected than file will also unavailable and if after sharing files user realizes that it is taking too much bandwidth than user might disconnect the sharing.

At rapidshare if files are shared by a free user then they will be in rapidshare’s server for 30 day without any downloads and if they files are uploaded by premium user than files will never be deleted until n unless user deletes it.

In rapidshare you must have noticed one problem that it has some restrictions of downloading for free users but i think you should get a rapidshare premium account as it will only cost about $10 a month by giving $10 a month you can find almost everything on rapidshare.Checkout my post How to search files on rapidshare using google search

Reasons provided in this post are completely based on facts experienced by me.It is possible that some of the users haven’t experienced them and torrents work good for them so please share your experience with torrents and rapidshare in comments.

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