Send Large Files with Smash

Sending a file is easy

You can attach it to an email, drop it into a synced folder, or copy and paste it into an instant message. It’s fast and it’s simple – even your grandparents can manage it!

On the other hand, sending a large file can be hard.

You’ll quickly run into attachment issues on an email, size and upload limits on that synced folder, and your instant messaging app of choice will flat-out reject your file if it is too large.

But those large files still need to be transferred and a wealth of different options have emerged to get it done. Whether it’s a compression application, an SFTP server, a file transfer web app, or a physical hard drive packed with video you pass across the office to your colleague in marketing, here are the five things you should be looking for when uploading your big files.

Easy

Transferring a large file should be simple. Look for a minimalist user interface when uploading where you don’t have to do much more than drag, drop, copy, and paste. For your recipient, look for functionality that makes downloading files easy, too. Features like file previews (the chance to review files, and then pick and choose which ones to download) help provide a superior user experience.

Speed

Everyone promises a fast transfer, so what should you look for to be sure you’re getting the speed you need? For one, make sure that your files are being uploaded to a server close by; if your files are circling the globe on their way to a server, that’s going to slow you down and generating a big carbon bill to boot. As well, make sure that the service you are using has the capacity to handle the traffic; cheap and cheery rarely means robust and rapid.

No Size Limits

There’s nothing worse than trying to upload a large file and your transfer service rejecting it as ‘too big’. In a perfect world you should only have to think about where you want your file and not worry that it’s too big to get there. Your creativity doesn’t have limits, and you shouldn’t use a file transfer service that puts limits on the size of the files that you can send, either.

Security

When you transfer a large file, you want it to arrive where it’s meant to go and nowhere else. You don’t want the data to be intercepted during the transfer or left on a server vulnerable to a bad actor. Your file needs to be uploaded securely, encrypted while it is moving between your machine and its destination, stored securely at the other end before, and automatically erased when it’s no longer needed.

Reliable

Your file needs to get to where it’s going without a hitch. When it gets there, it needs to be stored until it’s no longer needed, and then it needs to be erased. It should be available to people with the right permissions, and it shouldn’t be available to anyone who lacks those permissions. File transfer systems need to be robust, resilient, and reliable, and you shouldn’t trust your data to anything less.

How to Send Large Files with Smash?

Smash offers a market-leading file transfer service that excels on every level. It’s easy, it’s fast, it’s secure, it’s reliable, and there are no size limits on the files you send. What’s more, there are a bunch of different ways that you can use Smash no matter what device you use or how often you transfer files.