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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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Hello !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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[–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

Jpeg is already compressed, so compressing them again won't do anything but make it impossible for people to selectively download just the image/folder they desire.

Metadata on the other hand sounds like text files, which compress very well. Wether the space savings is worth it is hard to answer without more info. I'd personally lean towards not archiving it.