Meanwhile me who just never deletes anything:
Nice iso collection
Thanks for your service.
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?
It’ll probably tax your HD a bit more, sure.
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Why limit seeding unless you’re on a metered connection?
Because I have limited space.
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.
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 🥴
Yep, I set 2 for public trackers. I’m not very good at holding onto stuff for long periods of time, but I just got my first seedbox on Saturday so that may change. I am also kicking myself for not getting a seedbox years ago, it’s so good… and holy hell the speeds are amazing.
Why delete the torrent? The point of torrenting is to use the file.
Lots of people don’t have the storage space to keep every piece of media that they download. Once it’s been watched or listened to, it’s deleted.
Depending on the torrent, it’s faster to consume it than to seed it.
Because deleting the torrent doesn’t delete the file?
I use the *arrs to make a well named hard link to the file in my media library right after the download completes. Then they can be removed from the torrent client after appropriate seeding time/ratio.
I’ve made it my mission to use as much data as possible since my ISP forced me to pay more when they implemented some arbitrary data cap. Gots keep seeding until I run out of space to store content!
I don’t understand why everyone’s looking down on OP for giving twice as much as they take.
my ratio limit is 250… just because at that point i want to seed something else that is in queue.
but i have upload capped at 30mbps, this way i do ~1TB upload per day.
i can’t leave it uncapped or my ips will come knock on my door. but that’s on me for torrenting from a public ipv4 without any vpn
