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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (21 children)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Why would you do that? We should all keep on seeding as long as possible.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Cause I don’t have infinite storage. My seedbox has 4TB.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    My media server is not the same as my seed box.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you're copying a file to another server there's still no reason to delete it on the seedbox until you have to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Here's a tip: after moving the folder (idk if this counts after renaming a folder or file, probably doesn't), go into your torrent client and click Force Recheck on the torrent. it'll recheck everything and continue seeding the file.

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