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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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No problem, that's why I want to attach four 4TB SSDs :D

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

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.