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Planning on creating a huge torrent. Should I put the files into archives? (self.piracy)

submitted 1 year ago by cesium to c/[email protected]

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Hello [email protected]

I intend to upload an archive of a website I scraped for the last few weeks. The torrent is about 4 TB large and contains 400000 folders which in turn contain 40 .jpg's on average (plus some metadata).

Should I just create the torrent with the files as they are right now, or should I put the individual folders in archives (or maybe even the entire torrent?)?

Thanks in advance

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People will want to download chicks or parts of the torrent, you should leave them separate.

[–] cesium 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Makes sense. What about individual folders? I'm concerned that the massive amount of small files could slow down the download quite a bit. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with the BitTorrent protocol, so I don't know if this would have an impact.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Small files don’t impact BitTorrent transfers. They’re sent in pieces of a fixed size, and those pieces can contain multiple files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on final size of the folder zips. 20-30mb? Sure. 200-300? Nah.