Mini file server and torrent setups - which is better?

>HyperlogiK< · Nov 30, 2007

The two options which I am consiering are:

A WRT54GS running OpenWrt as a router and an NSLU2 running Linux as a mini file server and torrent box.

Alternatively, an WRTSL54GS running OpenWrt with bit torrent.

The single device would be a neater and cheaper setup but would it work as well and, most importantly, would bit torrent eat up all of the memory and processing power of the WRTSL54GS and kill it's routing performance?

bLack0ut · Nov 30, 2007

Wouldn't you need some sort of external storage for the bittorrent downloads anyways?

Xenocide · Nov 30, 2007

neither are very powerful.

nslu2 might be better for torrents but still severely under powered, trust me i own both.

Cheator · Nov 30, 2007

you're not going to get great performance. I have the WL-500g from asus that runs bit torrent. The torrent client fails miserably because of the limited cpu and memory.

>HyperlogiK< · Nov 30, 2007

Hmm... Thanks for the input guys, I'm half tempted to use a modded xbox with a big HDD.

Cheator · Nov 30, 2007

>HyperlogiK< said:
Hmm... Thanks for the input guys, I'm half tempted to use a modded xbox with a big HDD.

Thats not a bad idea but it limits you to xfat. Therefore, 4 gig file size max

grumperfish · Dec 1, 2007

Just grab an old P3 off of craigslist, throw xubuntu on it with either a large fat32/ntfs partition or a secondary hard drive, and run utorrent via wine. That's basically how I have my ftp/mt-daap-server/torrent box setup anyways. It's not super-powerful, but it has more flexibility than an xbox and it consumes less power than the P4 machine it replaced.

bLack0ut · Dec 2, 2007

isn't ktorrent the native client of utorrent for linux?

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