sharepoint 2013 large file upload ( >1GB)

Question

Does Anyone knows what is the max file size that can be uploaded through sharepoint?

I am facing an issue while uploading large file exceeding 1GB, i get an error:

Here are some solutions i tried:

1. Increase the time-out in IIS (by default It is 120 seconds, this might be changed but we can check again).
2. Increase the maximum upload size in the web.config file of the web application.
3. Increase the default chunk size for large files (Large-file-chunk-size: Stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server) ).
4. Add the executionTimeout value.
5. Increase the maximum limit for Web Parts.

I tried these and i am still getting and error while uploading these large files, here is the error:

Sorry something went wrong, an unexpected error occured.

Answer 1

There are a few tricks but usually when handling such large files you are better off using a file share instead.

Increase the maximum upload size for the IIS web application, there is a maximum file size up to 2047 megabytes.

Open the web.config C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\<Virtual Directory> and set

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="51200" /> to <httpRuntime executionTimeout="999999" maxRequestLength="51200" />

There is a great post on this here, http://blogs.technet.com/b/praveenh/archive/2012/11/16/issues-with-uploading-large-documents-on-document-library-wss-3-0-amp-moss-2007.aspx

But first of all I'd recommend you to have a look at RBS (Remote Blob Storage), http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748649.aspx