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10.0 MB test file
Exactly 10,485,760 bytes of deterministic incompressible pseudo-random data.
↓ Download 10mb.bin| Filename | 10mb.bin |
| Format | Binary |
| Size | 10.0 MB (10,485,760 bytes) |
| MIME type | application/octet-stream |
| SHA-256 | 7d14befba4830a4cf23b62671cb1b6d8fc4876a72018266dff9f267c4316510c |
What this file catchesUpload and download size-limit boundaries. Incompressible, so transfer-encoding gzip gives no free win and measured throughput reflects real bandwidth.
Handle it in code
Each snippet below was run against this exact file with Python 3.14.4 and Node 24.15.0 when this page was built, and the output shown is what it printed.
Python
Verify the download against the SHA-256 published on this page. file_digest (Python 3.11+) reads in chunks, so a 250 MB file does not need 250 MB of memory.
import hashlib
with open("10mb.bin", "rb") as f:
print(hashlib.file_digest(f, "sha256").hexdigest())Run against this file, it prints: 7d14befba4830a4cf23b62671cb1b6d8fc4876a72018266dff9f267c4316510c
Node.js
The same in Node, streaming the file through the hash.
const crypto = require('node:crypto');
const fs = require('node:fs');
const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256');
fs.createReadStream('10mb.bin')
.on('data', (chunk) => hash.update(chunk))
.on('end', () => console.log(hash.digest('hex')));Run against this file, it prints: 7d14befba4830a4cf23b62671cb1b6d8fc4876a72018266dff9f267c4316510c
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Download & verify
curl -fsSL -o "10mb.bin" "https://files.hexaqa.com/size/10mb.bin"
curl -fsSL "https://files.hexaqa.com/size/10mb.bin" | sha256sum
# expect: 7d14befba4830a4cf23b62671cb1b6d8fc4876a72018266dff9f267c4316510c