Planning on creating a huge torrent. Should I put the files into archives? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by cesium@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I intend to upload an archive of a website I scraped for the last few weeks. The torrent is about 4 TB large and contains 400000 folders which in turn contain 40 .jpg's on average (plus some metadata).

Should I just create the torrent with the files as they are right now, or should I put the individual folders in archives (or maybe even the entire torrent?)?

Thanks in advance

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[-] fkn@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

People will want to download chicks or parts of the torrent, you should leave them separate.

[-] cesium@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. What about individual folders? I'm concerned that the massive amount of small files could slow down the download quite a bit. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with the BitTorrent protocol, so I don't know if this would have an impact.

[-] zodo123@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Small files don’t impact BitTorrent transfers. They’re sent in pieces of a fixed size, and those pieces can contain multiple files.

[-] fkn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on final size of the folder zips. 20-30mb? Sure. 200-300? Nah.

[-] TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

Jpeg is already compressed, so compressing them again won't do anything but make it impossible for people to selectively download just the image/folder they desire.

Metadata on the other hand sounds like text files, which compress very well. Wether the space savings is worth it is hard to answer without more info. I'd personally lean towards not archiving it.

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 9 points 1 year ago

Only if you can achieve significant compression. 15% or more.

[-] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Leave them as is. I hate having to deal with archives inside torrents unless there's a very good reason for them.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Why not both?

[-] free@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

wow, dedication bud, few weeks to web rip. well done. true pirate here. tx 4 ur service. I'd love to know which site. 😛 feel free to DM me. I'm curious.