I guess the biggest expense is the hard-drive that needs to keep spinning and powered. I could create a new thread asking about torrent hosting on SSDs vs hard-drives. The constant (random) read operations should break hard-drive after some years?

what was your highest rate? A ratio of 3x ?

That would be a horror-story for me, electricity prices are high and the downloading computer should run for 24/7, with a spinning hard-drive.

20 minutes a day

Wow did he have some automation that restarted his computer daily? Amazing that the torrent finished for you!

I also have one that is sitting 50% and it has been sitting there for days. I think people should be honest about torrenting, its obvious. The experience can be hit and miss, some seeders have very slow connection, and break all the time (intentionally)?