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I don’t know about you guys, but I set mine to stop seeding at a 2.0 ratio. Give more than you get. That’s the way I think it should be.
True, unless you're the only one seeding a particular thing. It's good to keep media alive and available, especially obscure stuff.
Valid, although I prefer the 24/7 seed to infinity method.
Why would you do that? We should all keep on seeding as long as possible.
Cause I don’t have infinite storage. My seedbox has 4TB.
but seeding more does not cost storage. why not let it seed until you delete it?
if it's so that you can see which ones can you delete, just click on the ratio column to sort by that, and check which ones have a higher ratio
Because most people aren't using the files as stored in the download folder. They're renaming it, moving it to another folder, and deleting all the extra files. So you'd have to store it twice basically.
This is one of the great things about the *arrs. They will create a hardlink to the file in your media folder structure so that you can keep seeding and have a well organized/named media library without wasting storage.
Prior to that, I also just saved my torrents directly to my media library, and used the torrent manager to rename the local file properly. Same thing effectively, just a lil more work.
As the other comment says, use hardlinks and then you can have several copies of the file across the same partition all reference the same file, using just the storage space needed for one copy of the file. Still RAR files will need to be extracted first, so those would require just about twice the file size, but hopefully people stop using rar, so that's not a concern.
My media server is not the same as my seed box.
I'm guessing your seedbox is always on?
So why not use a shared folder?
My seed box isn’t connected to my network and I don’t want it to be.
If you're copying a file to another server there's still no reason to delete it on the seedbox until you have to.
And I have to. I am seeding a lot of things, but I only have about 300GB left to play around with, so things get deleted now.
Guess what? We are at the point where we have to already.
No.
Seedboxes just arent (usually) used as streaming servers.
So we fetch the downloads from the server and purge unpopular/non-important torrents
Depends on the torrent tbh, if it has loads of seeders already i don't really care.
A better way is to just limit connections and upload speed and seed forever. If your total connections is like 25 and your max upload is like 100 KB/ps, it doesn't affect your internet or anything although you should use a VPN and stuff, and it helps to keep those files out there with a complete source for a long time.
The more seeders, the likelier I'll probably give 2.0.
But I'll keep everything seeded as long as I have storage available.
Highest I've seeded before stopping was 2000x, on about 30 or so titles. And everything from my home connection lol