@vivek.krishnan how does Pi hold up against DD-WRT supported routers like Asus RT-N12?
Right now i have an GoFlex Home Base unit lying Idle, and Also one netgear R7000 router , selling on behalf of a friend.Rather than this, would suggest to pickup a entry level router or any router for that matter, and get a Pi for the downloading. There are some weird quirks or bugs which cause issues with the router based torrents. Optionally, you can see if @chetansha is selling any WD or Seagate stuff which allows attacking a HDD and at the same time allows streaming of the same.
Hi I haveGuys I need a router which can help me download torrents to a external hdd without a pc
Max Budget 5k
You are forgetting a few thingsPCs are efficient enough that i dont see a reason for these download rigs, it requires too much work and can even turn out to be more expensive , i have a extra hdd added to my main pc for downloading, it powers down when i am not downloading any thing , usually when only downloading the pc does not consume too much power , what ever extra power that my pc is using probably costs less than the money spent on PI or router download setup , and its easy and convenient to use .
PCs are efficient enough that i dont see a reason for these download rigs, it requires too much work and can even turn out to be more expensive ,
@Kilroyquasar As I said, I have a GFH and found that it is quite good, but here are the drawbacks
1. Does not have a native video out, so cant be used for video playback.'
2. No updates, unless installing Arch or the likes, and even for that there is no easy equivalent like NOOBs. The version of transmission that is available is version 1.92 which has some issues with DHT and PEX. I did did some tinkering and etc to get it to a higher version, but its not without its drawbacks!
Apart from this, here are the pros of the GFH over the Pi3
1. GbE connectivity - I have gotten over 60 MBps from the GFH over a gigabit connection on LAN. I am sure that over WiFi, the speeds will be atleast 50% of that, at worst. The Pi3 on the other hand, will be limited to 10 MBps.
2. Native SATA power and data - this is big plus for me, the ability to just put in a SATA HDD and use it. Have done it, will look forward to doing with 3TB and 4TB HDDs - my GFH runs with a 2TB HDD.
I would be eschewing both of these, to run my C1037UN board with 2 HDDs (2TB each) with xpenology or omv. I already am in the process of building a pair of massive backend storage of about 10TB+ as a project (vSAN)