computerdude92
Veteran Member
Hello guys,
Within now and the next couple weeks I will be starting my long awaited Bluray M-DISC backup. The discs I will be using are 100GB each and most discs will have a single, roughly 95GB RAR archive containing all the files for that particular disc.
Next to that file will be a text document containing the MD5 or SHA1 code so I can verify the files any time I want.
Up until now I have never generated an MD5 or SHA(x) code for a file larger than about 4GB. Will there be any problems generating codes for near-100GB archive files?
Or, do I need to have multiple archive files on the disc at the max capacity supported by the checksum codes? Can I use either MD5 or SHA1, or is SHA256 needed?
BTW, I just learned that ZIP archives have a limitation - They can't have files larger than 4GB. So now I plan to use RAR. Are RAR archives going to work without issues?
Thank you for your knowledge.
Within now and the next couple weeks I will be starting my long awaited Bluray M-DISC backup. The discs I will be using are 100GB each and most discs will have a single, roughly 95GB RAR archive containing all the files for that particular disc.
Next to that file will be a text document containing the MD5 or SHA1 code so I can verify the files any time I want.
Up until now I have never generated an MD5 or SHA(x) code for a file larger than about 4GB. Will there be any problems generating codes for near-100GB archive files?
Or, do I need to have multiple archive files on the disc at the max capacity supported by the checksum codes? Can I use either MD5 or SHA1, or is SHA256 needed?
BTW, I just learned that ZIP archives have a limitation - They can't have files larger than 4GB. So now I plan to use RAR. Are RAR archives going to work without issues?
Thank you for your knowledge.