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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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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).

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Consider using NFS instead of sshfs for more reliability.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks! I'll look into NFS!

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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