all scene release are Rared it's the rules - i prefer unRared to skip the risk of errors...

unrar

unRARed is usually more convenient since you don't have to take the time to unpack, and downloading via torrent negates the advantage RAR files might have when downloading directly anyway. Though for some files, like videos, I don't really care since many players can just play from a RAR file.

unrared, more space on hdd

Originally Posted by EL3M3nT

all scene release are Rared it's the rules - i prefer unRared to skip the risk of errors...

Not strictly true.P2P sites create upload rules not the scene..

UnRar Because Its Easy

These days RAR or ZIP never gives great compression ratio.
Good old days of getting great compression ratios are over with advanced MPEG and JPEG compression algorithms for pictures and movies.
It is almost always better to torrent files in original condition unless RAR or ZIP is only used as a container (0% compression) with self recovery built-in.

RAR or unRAR, I simply hate multi-part RARs.

UnRARed torrents because it's less complicated and rared files maybe damaged when archived & need time to unrar

Originally Posted by fuelzone

These days RAR or ZIP never gives great compression ratio.
Good old days of getting great compression ratios are over with advanced MPEG and JPEG compression algorithms for pictures and movies.
It is almost always better to torrent files in original condition unless RAR or ZIP is only used as a container (0% compression) with self recovery built-in.

RAR or unRAR, I simply hate multi-part RARs.

Very true.Multi-Parts do get annoying.But theres a reason behind that.And its down to archiving (storing) for future use.

I prefer RAR'd because that the standard of the SCENE ;-) Also, makes it better to download or even re-download broken rar files on slow connection. Not to mantion you can do checksum of the files.