I’m taking a break from gaming and have been using my gaming rig for torrenting and hoarding. But no matter how much I try to tweak power settings through software or through the BIOS, I still hover around 80 Watts. Which isn’t much compared to the 1000 Watts that were gushing into my PC every second when I played [some game] on ultra psycho path tracing settings, but still more than the measly 10-ish Watts that I expect from a Raspberry Pi.

Does anybody here have experience with torrenting on a Raspberry Pi? I would like to hook up four 2.5 inch SATA SSDs to the Pi. The logistics/physical placing of the drives is not a problem.

My current thinking progress is that there surely must be some adapter for the data cables that can interface SATA and the Pics GPIO and I could just let the PSU from my gaming ring sit next to the Pi to power the SATA disks if the Pi cannot supply enough power.

Any thoughts are appreciated!

  • emotional_soup_88@programming.devOPEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Thanks for sharing! I’m running a Tor bridge on a Pi 5 with DietPi. It’s great! Easy to use, feels really optimized.

    10 years?! Wow! What’s that, like a Pi… 3?

    • J-Bone@piefed.caEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      Oh, I’ve been updating the SBCs. Although my current Pi 4 has been running for over 5 years, don’t see a need to update to Pi 5.