Any experienced torrenters here? For me a torrent took like 3 days for a 4 Gigabyte movie, I had like 1 slow ass peer at a time.
Any experienced torrenters here? For me a torrent took like 3 days for a 4 Gigabyte movie, I had like 1 slow ass peer at a time.
I’ve had torrents take years.
I had this movie at the top of my list stuck at 71% for at least two years. Hundreds of other torrents came and went. Its easier to find it these days.
Totally worth it
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Oof. I give up after 365 days. I figure if no one has seeded by then no one will. Staring at that 98.7% completion makes me sad. :(
And yet, I do manage to snag some really rare stuff with enough patience.
That would be a horror-story for me, electricity prices are high and the downloading computer should run for 24/7, with a spinning hard-drive.
The downloading computer can be lower powered, and can do a bunch of different things! Home automation, ad blocking, file storage, so many options!
I guess the biggest expense is the hard-drive that needs to keep spinning and powered. I could create a new thread asking about torrent hosting on SSDs vs hard-drives. The constant (random) read operations should break hard-drive after some years?
I have 6 hard drives that have been running constantly from between 5 for the oldest and 2 years for the newest. Zero failures so far. They obviously have a lifespan to them, as with everything, but it’s not like they’ll fail left and right.
And I’ve moved out of so many cloud services (and streaming services) to in house, that over time, the privacy and savings of it are sort of worth it.
Lol, I have a whole ass Data Center in my basement ;)
So, is this datacenter only for ass or do you use it for other stuff as well?
Only ass. Obviously. What else would you do with it?