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Just crossed 1PB total upload, felt like bragging a bit. I'm sure others who have been at this for years and years would put my numbers to shame, but I was excited to see that 4th digit tick over! :)

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s a lot of Linux distros and libre office downloads!

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I get the joke, but it's weird for me that my highest ratio is for a Debian 13.3 ISO - 767MB down, 13.85GB up

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

My highest ratio on a transfer is on one I had for almost a year and a half and it's 48.44 GiB down to 1.676 TiB up, which amounts to around 490 for ratio. Everybody loves this collection of Linux ISOs, it looks like.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Mine are the yuzu and rarbg archive

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man that ratio, truly doing the lords good work

[–] EtherTide@aussie.zone 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

20:1 is crazy! Maybe I'm just interested in niche stuff, but I struggle to keep mine in the 1:1-2:1 range :(

[–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

You are doing god's works. Torrents with few seeders are important to keep alive!

[–] bright@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you want to increase your ratio you can just seed something popular

[–] EtherTide@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

That's why I keep my Arch Linux ISO up to date, according to my qbittorrent stats thats one of my most popular seeds so it helps the ratio out. Plus it's really useful to have as a rescue system for when I nuke my machine 🙃

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

The highest on my server is over 400:1 and it's a random romcom my wife wanted. Go figure, lol

[–] alila@lemy.lol 1 points 1 month ago

pretty sure qbittorent downloads 1 byte of overhead for every 30 uploaded. so ignoring that, the ratio would be 54x

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't you need another dozen or so TB? I thought it was 1024, not 1000, to the next unit

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah you're technically correct, which I'm told is the best kind!

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Correct 1 PiB = 1024 TiB. That’s why the lower case i is shown to denote they’re using base 2 instead of base 10.

But the good news is that 1011 TiB = 1.1 PB so OP actually crossed that milestone a while ago.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

I hate this shit. Nobody gave a shit about GiB until companies just had to enshitify hard drives. When I was a kid 1GB was 1024 MB end of discussion, nobody was counting anything in base 10.

[–] BannedVoice@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

Doing the lords work

[–] Jabbl@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mine actually says PiB, which is fun.

Best ratio torrent is Dune 2021 with a ratio of 4523:1 😅
To be fair, this is on a machine that runs 24/7 and has been active for 3 years now.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 9 points 1 month ago

🍻

4523 is insane! Like I mentioned in another post, my top is about 400:1, and that's romcom I've never even heard of, but that my wife wanted lol

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Lisan al Gaib

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ahoy! Thank you for your service!

Wow! I hit 100TB a couple months ago after about 8ish months of running it. 1 PB is truly incredible

[–] 000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Waow. Take a bow

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

You are a saint. Thanks for giving back to the community.

[–] IndieGoblin@lemmy.4d2.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very nice. public or private trackers? I can never get any upload on private

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All just public trackers. I haven't been able to get into any private invites, but aside from some niche stuff, the public ones have been serving me well enough.

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did anyone send you an invite, or do you prefer the public trackers?

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

I don't necessarily prefer them, I just honestly haven't put much effort into getting into any private trackers.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please also share over i2p network

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

I see qbittorrent has "experimental" support for i2p, but I would need to look into what all that setup entails.

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Holy shit. You absolute legend.