Ahoy, me hearties!
Listen well, me brethren! I’ve just acquired a fine NAS, and I be lookin’ to bolster our magnificent pirate community by sharing me digital plunder far and wide. But alas, it’s come to me attention that the uploads on all me torrents be as small as a speck of sand on the ocean floor, or worse, a big fat zero!
Now, I beseech ye, me shipmates, lend me yer wisdom. How can I fortify our pirate brotherhood? What be the proper settings for me NAS? Be there any trusty trackers or tools to help me upload and distribute the most crucial booty to aid our cause on the high seas?
Speak up, ye seasoned scallywags, and together we shall chart a course toward a stronger, more formidable pirate crew! 🏴☠️🦜⚓
If you seed from the same drive where you store your files, learn the art of hardlinking any torrents you’ve downloaded (that don’t require unpacking), and you can seed without taking up too much more space on your drive.
Hard links are essentially links that point to the same file. When one link is deleted, the other still exists and it is only when the last hard link is deleted that the underlying file is actually deleted.
For Windows see the following site for a hardlink tool that is integrated with the right click menu - https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
I use a local HDD for downloads and a NAS for storing media for Jellyfin.
I usually keep around 3 TB seeded, a lot of the stuff I seed I don’t even store myself, it’s just temporary.