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.
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?
Of course, why not? Hard drive space is cheap.
Seeding doesn’t take up space, as long as it’s on your disk you should seed it.
if you snatch a popular torrent that is fine but with dying torrents that is quite harmful
Dumb question, why?
Because 200% should be your minimum, not your max. 🤌🏼
If there’s no one left to seed, the torrent dies. Seeding back 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
True, but as a minimum you should be doing 200%.
OP is showing 200% as their maximum. That’s the whole point of this thread. 🤌🏼
No shit Sherlock 🫴
I’m not the one reiterating the salient point of a very short thread. Might do well to read that to yourself instead, friendo. 🤗
It will lead to the torrent dying if everyone stops seeding
If there are less than 5 seeds, then I keep sending indefinitely. Above that, I’ll consider deleting it to free up space once I’m done with the media.
Unless it’s getting 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.
I looked it up, and qBittorrent can easily handle hundreds of torrents, apparently. I haven’t noticed any problems running 180-ish. I’ll probably try to keep it capped to 300 or something like that.
Does it matter how many files are in each torrent?
I would think a 100 file torrent would be more intensive than a 3 file torrent.
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.
I use Gluetun for that. It’s a docker container that sets up the VPN and qBittorrent in two containers and routes all traffic from qBittorrent through the VPN.
Agree. I dont delete anything unless the quality is shit
meanwhile me who just never deletes anything:
Nice iso collection
Clearly a distro-hopper, my hero.
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.
If everyone torrented like OP, then no torrent would ever become unavailable and die.
Since they keep seeding until 2 users have the torrent.
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.
Because deleting the torrent doesn’t delete the file?
But if you are keeping the file anyways why not seed it?
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.
What should i keep the iso i had to extract the setup files from around?
To help others download the file. Its the point of torrenting, to share.
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.
Noob. I once accidentally seeded to a ratio of 435 and blew 2TB of data 🥴
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
