Planning on creating a huge torrent. Should I put the files into archives? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by cesium@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?)?

Thanks in advance

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[-] cesium@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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.