![]() The final benefit is how having an always-on download box shifts the burden off your desktop machine. If you use Usenet to grab your favorite TV shows, for example, an always on Raspberry Pi download box will snap them up the second they’re available. While Usenet downloads are unidirectional (there’s no seeding, trackers, or ratio monitoring like there is with a peer-to-peer service like BitTorrent), you still benefit from 24/7 operation. Even with external hard drives added into the system you would be hard pressed to break $10 a year in energy use. By comparison the Raspberry Pi consumes about $3 per year. If you followed along The How-To Geek Guide to Measuring Your Energy Use, you may recall that our modest office server burns through around $200 a year worth of electricity. Compared to running a traditional computer as a home server/download box, running a Raspberry Pi in its place will save you a pile of cash. As we highlighted in How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Always-On BitTorrent Box, the primary reason for shifting your download activities to a Raspberry Pi unit is the enormous power savings.
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