Transmission and external drive

[deckard666]

Moving from a cMP to this M1 MB Pro and was wondering about Transmission - Sometimes I have exceptionally large files sat on a drive in my cMP and wondered as I "only" have 512GB on the MacBook whether storing them on a external drive would be an issue....

Out and about I wouldn't be running Transmission at all but at home it runs 24/7 at the moment. In terms of it running 24/7 presumably I would have to leave the lid up or run something like Amphetamine ? Why would I use Amphetamine and not just leave the lid up with the display off ? Thanks.

 

[ignatius345]

Not sure I understand the question. Are you wanting to know if you can leave Transmission running without the computer going to sleep? The answer to that is yes. Just leave it connected to power and check this box below in preferences. The display should shut off on whatever schedule you have set in the system Energy Saver control panel.

 

[deckard666]

No more about having an external drive attached to the mac for storing the large data files - I presume that left on at home plugged into power using a USB3 drive it wont cause any issues ...

 

[Apple_Robert]

There is no problem using an external drive with sad program. It will be fine for large files.

 

[deckard666]

And I presume the drive will spin down and up as necessary ?

 

[Apple_Robert]

And I presume the drive will spin down and up as necessary ?

You are correct.

 

[deckard666]

Excellent stuff. Would there be any real advantage to using a SSD drive over a USB3 one in terms of performance / battery life. I presume the MacBook is happy being almost permanently plugged into the mains at home.

 

[velocityg4]

While it’ll work fine with an external drive. Have you considered just picking up a cheap used PC. Use that for BitTorrent. Then you can access your files via SMB.

With that you can leave it running 24/7 and not tie up system resources on your Mac.