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?)?
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.
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People will want to download chicks or parts of the torrent, you should leave them separate.
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.
Depends on final size of the folder zips. 20-30mb? Sure. 200-300? Nah.
Small files don’t impact BitTorrent transfers. They’re sent in pieces of a fixed size, and those pieces can contain multiple files.
You always choose to only download the parts of the torrent you want, no need to keep them seperate.