Answers.Body: <p>It seems just like two different mirrors contains the same SRA archive. If you still doubt, you can download both (its have relatively small size) and compare their md5sum.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Trying to download run data of Run accession <strong>SRR2155174</strong>. Here's the link: <a href="https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?run=SRR2155174" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?run=SRR2155174</a>
  Please go to the link and go to the "Data Access" tab. Hereunder header "Name" you can find two links:
  <a href="https://sra-downloadb.be-md.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sos1/sra-pub-run-5/SRR2155174/SRR2155174.1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://sra-downloadb.be-md.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sos1/sra-pub-run-5/SRR2155174/SRR2155174.1</a>
  <a href="https://sra-downloadb.st-va.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sos2/sra-pub-run-6/SRR2155174/SRR2155174.1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://sra-downloadb.st-va.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sos2/sra-pub-run-6/SRR2155174/SRR2155174.1</a>
  <strong>Do these two links download the same data or they are for different purposes?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
Tags: <sequence-analysis><phylogenetics>
Title: SRA run data access
ThreadText: # SRA run data access
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-03-22)
  
  Trying to download run data of Run accession **SRR2155174**. Here's the link: <https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?run=SRR2155174>
  Please go to the link and go to the "Data Access" tab. Hereunder header "Name" you can find two links:
  <https://sra-downloadb.be-md.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sos1/sra-pub-run-5/SRR2155174/SRR2155174.1>
  <https://sra-downloadb.st-va.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sos2/sra-pub-run-6/SRR2155174/SRR2155174.1>
  **Do these two links download the same data or they are for different purposes?**
  
  Thanks
  
  **Tags:** sequence-analysis, phylogenetics
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-03-22. Score: 2
  
  It seems just like two different mirrors contains the same SRA archive. If you still doubt, you can download both (its have relatively small size) and compare their md5sum.
  
  
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