TorrentBox Questions
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?
Last edited by rpiswag on Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Is there such thing as a torrent server or client or is each computer on the torrent a client and a server?
A computer's power can't be just measured Gigahertz. It is the same thing with us humans.
Re: TorrentBox Questions
What is the best torrent to use? Transmission, rutorrent or deluge ect.....
A computer's power can't be just measured Gigahertz. It is the same thing with us humans.
Re: TorrentBox Questions
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.
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.
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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).
A computer's power can't be just measured Gigahertz. It is the same thing with us humans.
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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
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