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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[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But the torrent client wouldn't be using the SD card right? Maybe for logs.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.