You should not have any issues. Worst case scenario is that one is slower than the other and will cause the faster one to step down, but unless one is significantly slower, you should have no issues.
Generally, in the past 10 years at least, mixed memory on dual channel configuration has not been an issue.
If the drives are good, maybe. If not, you are looking at buying 4 drives from their compatibility list.
Do you already have a storage server? I’m running TrueNAS on a computer I retired a few years ago. I have 4 1TB drives in it and am about to install a used SAS card I got from eBay for $40 to add up to 6 more. It should give me 8tb of space.
Without context, I would suggest Transmission for troubleshooting. Qbittorrent is bloating and weird on Windows.
The torrents should be hashed, but that wouldn’t stop someone from making a bad torrent or seeding one.
If someone made a file intentionally collided it would probably cause issues. These aren’t collision issues, but bad chunks of data.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/76043/torrent-bad-seed-attack-by-sony-how-does-it-work
At a peek, it seems that this attack only causes delays in downloads. It’s more possible that there are commonly shared files with similar issues.
As kolorafa said, writing at a lower speed might help.
Also, how is read performance on the optical drive? Could you try a commercial disk to see if it plays well?
If you made basic changes to your boot order I can’t see it causing performance issues with the drive. I can’t think of any settings that would cause issues.
My thought is more that there might be a bottleneck for the drive. In Windows a hard drive at 100% utilization slows down the system. I don’t know what kind of drive op has, but poor perform would be displayed in the performance monitor.
Also, if they are playing games and the network is saturated, they would experience network performance issues.
I’m guessing your writer is failing.
Same data
Same media
Multiple os rules out malware, mostly
Without being there to watch and understand your process, I have to assume you know what you are doing and haven’t missed a step in the writing process, such as finishing the disk or whatever. The fact that you are using multiple applications on multiple operating systems lends confidence.
That leaves the hardware itself. Luckily a new writer isn’t expensive.
S.1199 - STOP CSAM Act of 2023
This is currently in Congress. The intent is to kill end to end encryption in the United States under the pretense of child safety. If you are in the states, contact your local Congressional representative and tell them to vote against the bill.
I’m surprised there is not more organization against it.
Wouldn’t they make MORE money streaming for free with ads?