FreeNAS 8.2 Release

[ghoti]

It's much easier to use than torrents.

Theyre kinda the same in ease of use...

In fact, because you have to set your news servers there is an extra step with nzbs on setup.

For me, I prefer utorrent. After many suggestions here I tried nzb for a couple of weeks. Its okay I suppose but had some serious drawbacks.

Older movies and complete seasons of stuff are way easier to find & download on torrent than nzbs. Utorrent is better for getting through firewalls as well. Its fking easy to lock out news servers.

For the latest series and movies theyre about equal. Both come down at full line speeds and both are well supported. Though to get best results from nzb I found I had to use a paid for service as the IS news servers sucked balls.

However, so far as ease of use goes... theyre pretty even. If I want the latest episode of something I go here: http://thepiratebay.se/top click on the link and thats it. There is nothing complicated about it at all.

[Gnome]

My reasons for NZB over torrents:

- I get 100% line speed 100% of the time.
- Retention is over 1400 days (uploaded content are held up to 1400 days later), if a torrent were that old it is almost certain it wouldn't be seeded any more but I can still download the NZB at full speed.
- sabnzbd+ handles every situation. If a file has a zip password it'll stop downloading, if it has a sample it won't be downloaded, if it has damaged parts it will automatically download the parity files and fix it. All of this is automated.
- NZB indexes are very good when it comes to tracking "bad" files (eg. password protected or incorrectly named) and if you use a quality index like the local site or nzb matrix you almost never get these bad files.
- NNTP provider I use doesn't track downloading so it is impossible for anyone to know what I download (no take down notices, no nothing).
- Removing (eg. movie) something from USENET is nearly impossible. Read wikipedia if you want to learn why.

Reason I don't like torrents:
- Max line speed is not guaranteed, for that matter you might not even be able to download the file because it isn't seeded anymore.
- Lots of fake content added by RIAA & Co (eg. a movie isn't what it says it is)
- RIAA & Co add fake downloaders that inject bad packets into the content stream to slow it down.
- RIAA & Co send take down notices to downloaders
- Old torrents are almost never seeded and if they are, they are seeded badly.
- If something goes wrong with a torrent it is a whole manual process to clean the sh#t up.
- Samples, useless add txt info, etc. are downloaded and removing it from the torrent is a manual process
- Torrents aren't nicely renamed and added to my library. Maybe it is possible but torrent downloading is very much a manual process in my own experience.

[ginggs]

You should try 8.2 very stable and works like a bomb!

I think it's too late for me, all my servers have already been upgraded to ZFS pool v28. I might try it when they release 8.3 though.

I've had a look at the features of 8.2 and it does look like they've managed to put back everything that was in 0.7 but missing from 8.0.

[mh348]

For those still on 8.0 have a look at this tut for sab and sb http://www.joshuaruehlig.com/movie-tv-downloading