1 Gbit/s servers.

**HDlover** · 01-04-2010, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by DanielleD87

Originally Posted by HDlover

I got a general question - what the best speed i can get on a gigabit seedbox with a "regular" SATA 7200rpm HD?

Depends on the hard drive. The issue with bit torrent is torrents are like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Hard drives are much faster when they are reading or writing one file at a time. When seeding or downloading from 100 different peers then it is like read/write 100 different files at a time. All of a sudden buffer matters A LOT and seek times on the hdd matter a good amount too.

My recommendation is to avoid SSD. I also recommend you try for a four hdd raid 0 setup or find a setup that uses hdds in the cloud. Either way, a 2 hdd raid setup will work fine for gigabit but if you want to seed at 124MB/s AND download at 124MB/s at the same time (duplex) then a 4 hdd raid setup starting will be required.

Also, software vs hardware raid matters vary little. Software raid uses the cpu to transfer the data from the hard drive out to the internet while hardware raid does not use the cpu for such tasks. This is why hardware raid is always better. It also has extra buffering which is often a must. Regardless, software raid will work too.

And finally, setting up your torrent client properly can help a lot. Change the average buffer from 32KB to 128MB can help a lot, for example.

Actually I'm not interested in that, I mean having such crazy speeds all the time... It would cost me lots of $$$.. I was simply wondering how a simple setup would work with gigabit connection.
Using a single SATA 7200rpm HD , what are the best settings on utorrent for buffering etc... for getting the max out of it?

**DanielleD87** · 01-04-2010, 07:31 PM

Oh, I see. You can then do what a lot of topsites do which is use the ramdisk park of linux/bsd in usually /tmp or /temp and have your downloads transfer to there before hitting the hdd. If you have the ram for it this will smooth out hard drive writes by A LOT usually giving a 2 to 6x increase depending on the hdd setup. Since the writes are not segmented as much the reads will be as well which can speed up seeding a little bit too... but usually not.

**rls** · 01-06-2010, 01:53 PM

you cant get 1gbit unmetered dedicated just for $200. At least $800

**LadyGaga** · 01-06-2010, 05:10 PM

hmm i need a new seedbox need to find new ovh reseller

**OlegL** · 01-12-2010, 06:47 PM

Netdirekt offers a gigabit connection for its Intel i7 dedicated server that would cost you 1499 euros/month (a gigabit port alone). But my question is if it's really possible for SATA II drives that come with this server to really download at the speed of 125 MB/sec. What do you say?

**Rilly** · 01-16-2010, 08:32 PM

rapidspeeds (as a digicube reseller) offers 1 gpbs connection for 49.99 GBP (unmetered, direct, not shared)...

haven't tried it though.. just read about it

edit: I would be careful with hosting-ie... too many billing issues where I've seen people get screwed out of money - like one time MANY customers lost their server and they had to pay again to keyweb to get it re-activated

**waeldiab** · 01-16-2010, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by Rilly

rapidspeeds (as a digicube reseller) offers 1 gpbs connection for 49.99 GBP (unmetered, direct, not shared)...

haven't tried it though.. just read about it

edit: I would be careful with hosting-ie... too many billing issues where I've seen people get screwed out of money - like one time MANY customers lost their server and they had to pay again to keyweb to get it re-activated

Upstream traffic is limited to 3TB per month, and then upload is reduced to 10Mbps - additional traffic can be purchased for 2TB for £19 & 10TB for £64.

**Rilly** · 01-16-2010, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by waeldiab

Originally Posted by Rilly

rapidspeeds (as a digicube reseller) offers 1 gpbs connection for 49.99 GBP (unmetered, direct, not shared)...

haven't tried it though.. just read about it

edit: I would be careful with hosting-ie... too many billing issues where I've seen people get screwed out of money - like one time MANY customers lost their server and they had to pay again to keyweb to get it re-activated

Upstream traffic is limited to 3TB per month, and then upload is reduced to 10Mbps - additional traffic can be purchased for 2TB for £19 & 10TB for £64.

Where does it say that for the Digicube servers?