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TorrentBox Questions
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:12 pm
by rpiswag
What is a TorrentBox and what is it for? Is 32 gb sd card enough memory and should I port forward the TorrentBox if I want people to use it? What speeds should I expect on a pi model B running Transmittion?
Re: TorrentBox Questions
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:54 pm
by rpiswag
Is there such thing as a torrent server or client or is each computer on the torrent a client and a server?
Re: TorrentBox Questions
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:33 am
by rpiswag
What is the best torrent to use? Transmission, rutorrent or deluge ect.....
Re: TorrentBox Questions
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:01 am
by allfox
Greetings.
I'm taking my understanding, so may be wrong.
A torrentbox is a machine which is able to:
1 - Run a torrent client to download things.
2 - Able to act as a network attached storage(NAS), so you can get downloaded things out of it.
Transmission is good. I haven't tried others though. I recommended Transmission because it has a good Web interface, so you can run the torrentbox headlessly.
For the NAS part, you can use samba (as I do), and if you have a Pi 2 with a wired USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter, you could reach the maximum speed which a 100MB LAN could provide (about 11.2 mega bytes per second).
And one more thing, maybe use a flash storage as the NAS is not good. Torrent downloading require read and write operation frequently, so gonna to wear out flash storage quickly. I used a SanDisk Ultra 16GB flash disk to do the job, and it just died in few month. Maybe it just be my bad luck anyway.
Re: TorrentBox Questions
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:24 am
by rpiswag
Thank you and is 32 gb enough memory? I know this is something a total noob would ask but are there any pre made images for the Raspberry Pi that have torrents on them (transmission).
Re: TorrentBox Questions
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 1:20 pm
by allfox
32 GB is a good beginning, but when you find out that you could stream video/music to your tablet/laptop, maybe you'll need more. The idea is that let Pi download things 7/24, and when it's done, stream things to tablet/laptop to watch. So you don't need to move things into your tablet/laptop.
And I only tried Raspbian, you can use "sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon", or get source from
http://www.transmissionbt.com/ then "./configure; make; sudo make install".
Transmission pre-installed OS also exists:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 3&t=100976