Meanwhile me who just never deletes anything:
Thank you for your service.
Some people including OP are completely missing the point of torrenting, which is to share, not leech. If everyone removed their torrents like the OP, everything would quickly become unavailable and die.
IMO a better strategy is to just limit your global upload speed. Then at least you’re still making everything healthy and available, even if its distributed slowly.
Noobie question: Is keeping my PC running to seed torrents taxing on the HDD or would it shorten its lifespan?
if you snatch a popular torrent that is fine but with dying torrents that is quite harmful
I’m considering getting a seedbox because with my current storage setup, and my unwillingness to keep the vpn up all the time 2.0 is the best I can do.
This was annoying me too, and I solved it by spinning out a VM that exists just to run qbittorrent and the vpn connection.
If there’s no one left to seed, the torrent dies. Seeding back at least 200% ensures the torrent stays healthy.
Sometimes you need to seed back more than 200% because the other two people might not be able to seed it back. I would generally not set a limit
If there are less than 5 seeds, then I keep seeding indefinitely. Above that, I’ll consider deleting it to free up space once I’m done with the media.
Unless it’s from a private tracker, in which case I’ll just seed everything forever to get the sweet bonus points.
How does that work, does the downloader just cycling though seeding torrents or do they all stay active? I feel like there would be so much torrents over time it would slow everything down.
Why limit seeding unless you’re on a metered connection?
Seeding doesn’t take up more space, unless you were planning to delete the thing, which doesn’t make much sense.
In my case - of course it takes up space that would otherwise be free. I only get what I immediately use and I mostly don’t need it anymore directly afterwards. If I’d only seed as long as I need the file I would never reach a ratio of 1, let alone 2. So yeah, a ratio of 2 leaves enough space for me to work with, while giving back double then what I took. I don’t see the problem.
unless you were planning to delete the thing, which doesn’t make much sense
Why not? You keep every film every episode every-thing you consume?
Seeding doesn’t take up space, as long as it’s on your disk you should seed it.
Noob. I once accidentally seeded to a ratio of 435 and blew 2TB of data 🥴
Why delete the torrent? The point of torrenting is to use the file.
