Basically, I've been downloading all my stuff via VM's, but at least Win10 VM's on a fairly powerful rig with OracleVirtualBox and with their own dedicated SSD's just don't offer the performance I need. VM's constantly lose connection, freeze or just hang up for tens of minutes or until restart. As far as I can tell, it's a problem specifically with OracleVM, but I'm sort of just tired of testing various configs, so lately I've been thinking about a dedicated PC for just torrenting, preferably one with Ubuntu.
Specifically talking about somewhat low-power PC's, maybe small form factor, running off of Ubuntu on SSD's as main OS, and pumping downloads into external hard drives. Possibly with the ability to remote into the machine from main PC, maybe connecting to home group for easy data share.
Has anyone setup dedicated torrenting machines and can share the experience or have some advice?