Raspberry Pi 2

Got it on recommendation from @Nishant and @vedantlath. Vedant helped me install and configure. Right now it's able to connect to VPN and download torrents. I also plan to use it to keep the Reliance Broadband auto-login script running 24x7.

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I have to buy an external hard drive for it. Any recommendations? Prices are pretty high these days.
 
Can you use a memory card ? I am thinking download to memory card and then transfer to HDD.
 
Memory card is used to boot pi. But yes, you can set memory card as your download location. I would suggest using a flash drive instead.
 
And as Nishant said... Downloading on the card itself is a bad idea coz they would wear out faster killing the OS in the process. I am using a pen drive right now waiting for a good price on external HDD. Pen drives are going to die fast too with torrenting.
 

Isnt it better to risk card or pen drive over HDD. I think torrenting is bad for HDD as well. I have 2 HDDs i have been using one as storage location for torrents. The other has one has all important data.
 
From a price point of view and considering HDD has a lot of data isn't it better to go with flash ?
 
plus you cannot download larger torrents on pen drives. i currently have a 32GB one. 128GB ones are going to cost a bit much. the only advantage is portability. sure they are disposable but they are not a good option for long term torrenting. i mean there is no harm. but i tend to have one big torrent in queue that runs for weeks even months during the times when i have nothing current to download. that does not work out on well on a pen drive. so if your requirements are fulfilled by a pen drive, it should be fine. using the sd card is a bad idea because if it goes bad, you have to deal with the whole install/configure thing again. you can of course create an image and use that to get a new card ready faster so that's fine too.
 
a 64GB cheap pen drive should be fine for you. there is no point in getting high quality ones unless you are downloading at 100mbps or something.
 
Also if you are going to use the pen drive only on Pi, format it using Ext4 file system. Linux handles Ext4 much better than FAT32 or NTFS. Also, FAT32 has a 4GB size limitation per file. Avoid using NTFS file systems on linux. The SATA HDD which is connected on my Banana Pro board is formatted using Ext4 file system.
 
I was using vFat (pen drive came with that) and I was having issues downloading torrents with long file names. Formatted it to ext4 and have not seen any issues with a few test torrents I ran in the last couple of hours.
 
I heard 3.5 inch external drives last much longer than 2.5 inch drives. If you're not going to using it for portability I suggest you to go for WD My Book drives. Only downside is it comes with external power adapter.
 

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