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> this is only 5 or 6 hard drives at today's maximum capacity of 28TB

And 500 IOPS.

It's fine for the personal usage, it's another thing to seed this amount

The beauty of torrents is that as soon as someone else starts to download, provided they're a good swarm member, the overall seeder capacity increases.

You don't need to have 100% of the data to start seeding, you only need a single chunk.

It might take several weeks for that first peer to hit 100% but it should be quickly followed by a whole lot more as those peers are all seeding each other up to 99% amid the process.

Thanks, my first torrent was published on TPB in 2005, I know how that works.

> It might take several weeks for that first peer to hit 100%

And this is a problem here. More leechers -> more IO for the random blocks -> less overall IOPS.

If you find a torrent client what can advertise the blocks sequentially then it would be much faster.

I think the problem you're talking about is solved by super-seeding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-seeding

I believe libtorrent supports it, among others.

If you released a monthly snapshot it'd be ~10TB, which is still a lot but definitely feasible.

If it gets packaged as a series of daily tar archives the IOPS won't be a significant issue. Hard disks perform well in sequential reads.

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