Well, I did not have to look far:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/radxas-sata-hat-makes-compact-pi-5-nas/
But I still would love to hear any relevant anecdotes! :)
This is really cool, saving for later
As long as its just the torrenting, it should be totally fine. The only thing that wouldn't work is if you want to also run Jellyfin on it as it would really struggle with transcoding.
Thanks! Nah, I use bare bone sshfs to stream media (call me a lunatic) to a separate media player turned Lenovo T480 (which plays 4K just fine with a little indiscernible fan noise).
Consider using NFS instead of sshfs for more reliability.
Thanks! I'll look into NFS!
NFS like the other person said. Or Samba. I’ve been rocking samba sharing for years with almost no trouble. Mounts reliably and performs speedily without the pitfalls of sshfs potentially tweaking out or just causing unnecessary load on moving data around.
Samba is good too, but needs some config tweaking to hit top speeds on faster networks (5Gbps, 10Gbps or more). Probably not relevant here since the Pi only has a gigabit Ethernet port.
Get rid of the SD card and only use the SSDs. It's a common point of failure with Pis - SD cards aren't designed for frequent writes.
Fun fact, even reads wear out solid state media! https://superuser.com/questions/722917/will-mounting-a-file-system-read-only-increase-the-lifespan-of-an-ssd/725145#725145
But it would take decades of constant reads to wear it out. SD cards are less durable than ssds, but even there you probably wouldn't be able to achieve it with reads exclusively.
But the torrent client wouldn't be using the SD card right? Maybe for logs.
I was thinking more about metadata for the torrent client, or for other apps, like Plex or whatever else is running on the Pi. Logs, but also databases (if they store any) and things like that.
Yep, I burnt an SD card out on a rig that I use as a home server. A real pain but I now have better backup.
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
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).
4 GB I believe
It works great, I've been using a Pi SBC for torrenting for nearly 10 years now (in addition to NAS, a media server, Pi-Hole and more).
I would strongly recommend going with DietPi. It has a great set of custom CLI management tools, very active developers and a relatively large community (150K+ installatios active last quarter). It's based on Debian for ARM so it has a solid foundation.
Thanks for sharing! I'm running a Tor bridge on a Pi 5 with DietPi. It's great! Easy to use, feels really optimized.
10 years?! Wow! What's that, like a Pi... 3?
Oh, I've been updating the SBCs. Although my current Pi 4 has been running for over 5 years, don't see a need to update to Pi 5.
The Pi should be able to handle torrenting no problem, but, note that you'll want to use a separate hard drive as the Pi uses an SD card as its primary disk and those things aren't known for dependability under the load of constant IO from the torrents.
No problem, that's why I want to attach four 4TB SSDs :D
That can come with its own problem that's worth looking into. I've got 2 USB3 SSDs attached to mine, and the minute I add another one, I get complaints in the logs about insufficient voltage... even with a powered USB hub.
It seems that there's a limitation in there somewhere, though I'm not clear on what it is. To be safe, I'd make sure that each drive is independently powered rather than relying on getting enough juice from the device or hub.
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