Experience on torrenting and hoarding with Raspberry Pi? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm taking a break from gaming and have been using my gaming rig for torrenting and hoarding. But no matter how much I try to tweak power settings through software or through the BIOS, I still hover around 80 Watts. Which isn't much compared to the 1000 Watts that were gushing into my PC every second when I played [some game] on ultra psycho path tracing settings, but still more than the measly 10-ish Watts that I expect from a Raspberry Pi.

Does anybody here have experience with torrenting on a Raspberry Pi? I would like to hook up four 2.5 inch SATA SSDs to the Pi. The logistics/physical placing of the drives is not a problem.

My current thinking progress is that there surely must be some adapter for the data cables that can interface SATA and the Pics GPIO and I could just let the PSU from my gaming ring sit next to the Pi to power the SATA disks if the Pi cannot supply enough power.

Any thoughts are appreciated!

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[-] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

I currently use a Pi 4 as a torrent box. The hard drives used to be hooked up to it using a powered USB3 hard drive bay but now they sit in a separate NAS, so the pi is just for running the torrent software.

The only important thing I have to note is I had to limit the total number of connections in the qbittorrent settings (to I think 75?) or else the system would run out of memory while seeding public torrents that were new and in demand. Works great tho

[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I see. Thanks for the heads up! How much RAM do you have on that Pi 4? On my gaming rig torrenting alone can occasionally eat up 2Gb of RAM, but I haven't limited anything there (if anything, I've increased various limits following the git readme of qBittorrent).

[-] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

4 GB I believe

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