Who thought it was a good idea to have single torrents of multiple TB??
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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My own server only has 13 tb max XD
Bruh, this is a terrible way to share this. Why not torrents of the raw material in predefined categories that won't change? Like "1984 - Sci-Fi - English - A-N", "1984 - Sci-Fi - English - O-Z", "1990 - Biology", "2012 - Physics". Then people would actually even download this to use it themselves, instead of some archive that has to be extracted and will take a multitude of the space again.
The hell am I going to do with a 300GB archive file that I cannot even look into? I might as well be storing an encrypted blob 300GB large or just reducing the size of my partition by 300GB.
It's great that people want to preserve human knowledge, but there surely are better ways to do this.
If you can do better let's see it. This post is for altruists and archivists... clearly you're neither.
It seems the majority of the torrents with poor seeder count are in the 1.5TB+ range. I just simply don't have the storage for that. Most everything in the 0-300GB range is pretty well covered.
Can you partially seed some of a larger torrent?
Yes. When downloading the torrent, go to the files list for that torrent and un-check boxes. Resist the urge to leave only the first files in the list(as most people will do this leaving few-if-anyone seeding the rest), **and try instead to grab files from the middle or end, or just be random about it.
When the torrent finishes downloading the files you've selected, it will automatically seed those portions of the torrent which you have downloaded.
EDIT: I just remembered, some torrent programs will actually show you the seed ratio per file in the torrent. There are reasons hardly anyone is (sincerely) trying to reinvent this wheel.
Agreed. I'd like to share a bit of disk storage but I only have 2 TB and I need that for my own consumption.
Give us smaller torrents (e.g. 50GB parts) instead.
Me with only 250GB ssd in an intel nuc lmao
That's my rented seedbox I sync my downloads from.
At home I have an intel nuc 11th gen with 8tb attached via USB.