Piracy General

[Car Won't Crank]

For me storage is the problem with torrenting right now. I'm genuinely contemplating buying a new PC in the near future just so I can expand the storage easier. I download entire series of long running shows and that shit adds up very quickly.

If all you need is more storage, a cheaper option could be to get one of those jbod 4bay sata usb enclosures and fill them up with 10tb drives.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

If all you need is more storage, a cheaper option could be to get one of those jbod 4bay sata usb enclosures and fill them up with 10tb drives.

You have a point that just for hoarding movies and videos USB isn't too much of a bottleneck. I'm currently using a 500GB HDD from extracted from a 10 year old laptop in a 2.5" box for a measly little crumb of extra storage but the day that thing finally croaks on me could come any time now lol.

 

[Betonhaus]

what are the best indexers to add to prowlarr for use in Sonarr and Radarr? I got nyaa for anime but what's best for tv shows and movies? having too many indexers makes searching slow.

 

[seri0us]

what are the best indexers to add to prowlarr for use in Sonarr and Radarr? I got nyaa for anime but what's best for tv shows and movies? having too many indexers makes searching slow.

Probably The Drunken Slug

 

[Betonhaus]

Probably The Drunken Slug

I mean for torrents

oh wait I was going to switch to usenet

 

[Betonhaus]

what's the best usenet provider?

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

what's the best usenet provider?

Same as last time

ETA:

Newshosting (Omicron backbone) has a decent offer on. As for indexers NZBGeek is alright.

 

[Betonhaus]

Same as last time

it refuses to let me pay, I try to enter my (dedicated prepaid) credit card and the form for entering the number cannot be interacted with. I'll try frugalusenet for a while

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

it refuses to let me pay, I try to enter my (dedicated prepaid) credit card and the form for entering the number cannot be interacted with. I'll try frugalusenet for a while

News Demon $24/yr - https://members.newsdemon.com/billinginfo.php?pricepointid=20240914

That's UsenetExpress backbone.

 

[Never Scored]

News Demon $24/yr - https://members.newsdemon.com/billinginfo.php?pricepointid=20240914

That's UsenetExpress backbone.

I can also vouch for News Demon. Been using them for years. I originally went with them just because I liked the name, but they ended up being great. They throw in VPN access too.

 

[Zero0]

Being able to find a movie and watch it immediately from a big list is nicer than torrenting. I'll torrent TV series but movies are disposable

You can stream torrents you know?

 

[Betonhaus]

what do i do if a nzb download gets stuck nearly done fo like 10 hours or more?

edit nvm it finished

 

[3deadniggers]

You can stream torrents you know?

Since when?!

 

[Zero0]

Since when?!

You can use Stremio with torrentio.

For small files, you can also just choose “Download sequentially” and you can usually play them straight away.

 

[snowdunes]

any reason using m0nkrus over GenP?

m0nkrus version is a complete offline installation file, that version can be archived for your future computer/other workstations. With the GenP version, you are still dependent on Adobe keeping their installer (Adobe Creative Cloud) to not change and still being able to connect to their servers for the installation. IMO, if you go for GenP, at least download and archive a copy of a m0nkrus version in case of Adobe deciding to change their shit (one day they will).

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

R.I.P., Kimcartoon

This hurts me. Yes, the website was dogshit, but it had so much content. Some stuff you can't just buy. I haven't been able to find a good replacement.

 

[N Space]

What format are you guys downloading in? You can fit like 500 hours of 1080p movies/tv on a $50 1tb portable drive if the videos are encoded with x264.

I download in the best quality I can find and then transcode it to AV1 using ffmpeg. This can take a while if you want to compress the video stream as much as possible, but IMO it's worth it unless you want to immediately watch what you download. I recommend you use CRF to indirectly set the bitrate, CBR or constant bitrate doesn't care about the complexity of the scene so bits aren't properly allocated, also watch out for film grain synthesis when transcoding grainy media, it can save a fuck ton of bits.

 

[Count Grishnackh]

Just got back into torrenting. Buddy of mine hooked me up with WD Elements 18TB external HDD for $50! Far more storage than I'll ever need, but couldn't pass.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

Just got back into torrenting. Buddy of mine hooked me up with WD Elements 18TB external HDD for $50! Far more storage than I'll ever need, but couldn't pass.

absolute steal. I paid that much for 3 tb. i fell robbed now. though, I avoided shingled recording and low rpm green drives on purpose. But one is running out of reserve sectors already... I think read somewhere that shingled recording is bad for raid, so I'm not sure if getting cheap externals and gutting them for nas use is a good idea but I'm contemplating it now.

 

[Count Grishnackh]

absolute steal. I paid that much for 3 tb. i fell robbed now. though, I avoided shingled recording and low rpm green drives on purpose. But one is running out of reserve sectors already... I think read somewhere that shingled recording is bad for raid, so I'm not sure if getting cheap externals and gutting them for nas use is a good idea but I'm contemplating it now.

Yeah, he has a 20TB RAID, working on getting a 22-25TB. He said it was collecting dust. I still end up downloading smaller files, as long as they have subs.