Post hardware that you are using for torrenting.Here is mine :- i5 12500- 16 Go - G.Skill Ripjaws V Black - 2 x 8 Go- SSD NVME WD_BLACK 1TB- WD RED Plus 3.5" 12TB
>>1396004>datamining threadnice try, fed
>>1396004I forget my specs. Intel NUC6TB HDD
>>1396129fucking iPhone
>>1396004needs more 3.5'' HDDspornthreads on /t/ delenda est
I am looking at setting up a torrenting PC out of an old laptop. Not to torrent a massive amount, just to upload more then I download.If my bulk storage is connected via USB, am I setting myself up for pain? Is USB 2 usable, or I need USB 3?
>>1396315It depends on your connection speed, some USB boxes also go to sleep If you only use the laptop for that, put it internally and do a minimal Linux/Windows installation
>>1396408I was looking at a basic linux install with the ethermet port configured for 10 Mb as I only have 30Mb upload.My hope with the external stotage is to use hardware I already have. I will keep the point about external boxes sleeping in mind if I end up with weird behaviour.
HP Z600 dual Xeon thing running Ubuntu with two external SAS RAID 10 arrays. Two arrays each of 4 x 4TB HDD's. I've also got a less power hungry Z400 single Xeon with a quad external HBA card so I'm going to move the arrays onto that to free up the Z600. The second Z600 is a Windows 11 box that never gets switched on.Z400 already has seven internal drives and there's two more SAS drives waiting to join the arrays so it will be mounting a total of 17 HDD's. Eventually.
>>1398603Correction, one of tthose arrays is SATA and is pretty much just a backup of the SAS array
>>1398603sexy
>>1396004once the current hardware craze ends, I will retire my current hardware and repurpose it for seeding. And fill ALL of those 3.5'' HDD bays
>>1399694Nice idea anon
>>1396108No, they take taxesThey don't careFed, ced, cia, etc are all cocksucking losersHollywood of JEWS is not REALITY
Will switch from this ssd to hdds too once current prices come down
>>1400179cute, that was my first setup
>>1400179>>1400300waste of resources to use an ssd for that
>>1400300Same <3
>>1400179>once current prices come downThat will never happen again because AI has permanently ruined the prices.>>1400300It's YOU who's cute, you silly boy! :3
>>1400477>>once current prices come down>That will never happen again because AI has permanently ruined the prices.All manufacturers (except Toshiba) are upping their production capacity. Shareholders are not dumb, when prices are higher they will want to sell more units. Seagate and Western Digital have even announced their largest capacity will be 100TB drives soon. Prices will come down, don't worry.
>>1400509Increase their capacity sure but for what market. For the AI market, have you seen the videos with bins full of hdds being shredded
>>1400513>have you seen the videos with bins full of hdds being shreddedblood libel for nerds ass urban legend
>>1400509You seem to be an expert in terms of memory storage drives!Should I buy a Fikwot FX815 4TB SSD or should I buy an 8 TB Seagate One Touch External HDD in Amazon?This picture is relevant to what I said!
>>1400904My recommendation would be to buy 3.5'' HDDs and configure them in a RAID setup, preferably with a nice filesystem like ZFS.This makes the whole debate about expected lifetime of individual drives irrelevant.
old but still runs
>>1396004PICrel is stolen from reddit but what would you install on such a bad boy?unraid? FreeNAS? TruNAS?I was thinking Debian + ZFS + Docker containers.Or is there something special to all these specific NAS operating systems?
>>1401038OP here.It depends on your own needs; I installed Debian because I think it's more flexible.I mostly use containers, except for Transmission and CUPS, which are installed nativelyCUPS doesn't work very well in Docker, even for discovery
Too lazy for pic- Used Supermicro mobo with Epyc 7302, 256GB RAM- Proxmox for hypervisor- TrueNAS VM with HBA passed through to it, ~170TB raw storage, ~74TB available due to RAID & hot-spares- rtorrent/rutorrent running in a k8s pod funneling all traffic through VPN with gluetun
>>1396004Humble beginnings :)
Two 14TB WD's and a 1TB SATA SSD for caching my most downloaded torrents on my 5700X3D 64GB 1080 Ti gaymen PC.
>>1402007welcome anonwhy manjaro instead of debian ?sometimes the updates are broken
>>1400311Gotta start somewhere.
>>1401141>CUPSCommon Unix Printing Server???
>>1403734He prints his torrents onto paper storage.
>>1401038I use FreeBSD for its native ZFS support and better throughput. It's also light weight enough to fit on a 16GB sata DOM and still have enough room for jellyfin and qbittorrent-nox.
>>1403734I don't just use the machine for torrents, I host a lot of things on it. I also run my own Jellyfin instance, with a power consumption of 21W>>1403745yeah I print my movies
>>1400179>once current prices come down
>>1396004>Can't find a define R5 in my country to save my lifeFUCCCCKCKCKCKCKCKCKCCK Americans don't know how good they have it.
>>1404122OP here—are you in Europe? I found it easily, it's still being sold, but you could look for a used one or get a Define 7 it has six 3.5" bays, and the 7 XL has eight
>>1404165Middle east.Couldn't find any used ones, and most define 7 are the compact edition.I did find one that was the XL but it costs like $330.
I use a random laptop pc(Dell Latitude 7480) with Tails OS(that one os that runs on ram and that wipes everything when shutted down), I just save my files on an hdd before shutting down.
>>1404251>Power goes out>Lose everythingIf you're that paranoid just use a VM.
I got this at a yard sale free & use it to seed for MAM-- pretty cool you can just make an old laptop with a broken screen into a headless server & ssh to set things up.
>>1396004I ain't telling you glowie
>>1396004Thinking about hosting torrents, but I don't have the original hashes... and I've deleted shit out of them that I didn't want. Should I just create my own? What's the best client for a freenas box?
>>1396004Desktop in one of my employers office building has been running for almost 4 years lmaoI pay for a year of mullvad with bitcoin/lightning. I always pay for a year at a time. Nobody knows it’s seeding 24/7 lmao. Nobody knows it was me.Around 4TB or movies and tv shows. Not a single torrent with more than 10 seeders
>>1401038truenas is a pain in the ass. I would have said 100% lock unraid before they jew'd out. unless you have some specific high end CPU requirement I'd just buy an 8 bay synology for a simple NAS because it just works.
>>1401038get one of these instead. Full desktop cases are a psyop
>>1396004>hardware that you are using for torrentingwhat hardware? only a pc or laptop or even a phone is needed. you aren't mining the movies.
>>1404882running for 4 years without an ethernet connection?
>>1396004>>1396129Update:UbuntuqBittorrentIntel NUC7i5BNHIntel Core i5-7260URAM 8GBSSD01-480GBHDD01-6TBHDD02-8TB
hdd 1: 14tb exos (roms, emus, mags, multimedia, retro cartoons, audiobooks etc etc w/ launchbox)hdd 2: 1tb wd black (misc)hdd 3: 2tb seagate barracudasmthing like 20-24TB would be much better tho
>>1400904If you can help it, dont buy seagate. They fail way more often and in ways that make dr harder. F3 comes locked by default, and to flash custom to bypass it yo either need pc3k to exploit, or you have to pull the spi chip and flash that and put it back on as the firmware is digitally signed and verified during download by the hdd. Just check the backblaze data by manufacturers, you will see seagate consistently skewing the data by 2-3x times failure rates compared to anything else.If you dont buy seagate drives it makes such a large difference you can almost get away with not having redundancy.
>>1401038Forget what you run on it. This is unrelated to torrenting as it is not demanding for permormant storage, but that in the picture looks like a pissy sata expander card. Never use those. They can be cheap, but so are pcie2 x8 HBA's (or IT raid cards) decommissioned for 20 years. And they willwipe the floor with the sata expanders at 32Gb/s throughput both ways. If you are short of pcie lanes and dont want to waste 8 lanes at gen2 speeds, go for gen3 x8 cards, still cheap as hell, but you dont really need it as the gen2 card will still fully saturate those 8 drives and more.
