If you’re uploading a 50 GB file via a browser form, it will likely time out after 5–10 minutes. Use CLI tools like curl , rclone , or aws s3 cp .
# Time how long ZSTD takes on 50GB time zstd -19 50GB_random.file -o 50GB_compressed.zst 50 gb test file
$file = [System.IO.File]::OpenWrite("C:\test\50GB.bin") $buf = New-Object byte[](1024*1024) # 1 MB buffer for($i=0; $i -lt 51200; $i++) $file.Write($buf, 0, $buf.Length) $file.Close() If you’re uploading a 50 GB file via
Save this script to a file (e.g., create_test_file.py ) and run it using Python (e.g., python create_test_file.py ). This will create a 50 GB test file named testfile in the current directory. $i -lt 51200