![]() ![]() HDD’s are meant to store, read and write data and this is what they are doing.HDD Failure and Bit Torrent are not related!! (Crap I wasted my time reading this article) ![]() ![]() Now before I finish up the article let me cover both the views. Yes I know there are like 100 of factors to this point but increasing RAM does help.ītw higher speed connections ( read 2Mbps and above ) magnify the effect as compared to our standard Indian speeds of 256Kbps. After I upgraded to 1 GB the lighting up of HDD led was less frequent. When I made my old trusty computer be my downloading rig I could see the HDD light flutter for long times, it had 256mb ram. Note : Remember not to set the cache value too high, you will loose any data in cache if utorrent crashes. Personally I use 35mb because I have a fast connection so it takes max 5 minutes to reach that amount and its short enough that I don’t loose too much data if utorrent crashes.Įdit : Azureus can do the same and you can also view the read-writes saved due to cache and set an optimal limit for yourself In utorrent go to Preferences -> advanced -> Disk cache and change the size. We are going to tackle frequent writes to HDD by increasing the limit that our torrent client uses to cache files before writing.īT Clients Cache Limit ( The best way to tackle the problem) It does hurt to loose 100 of GBs of data. If you have that old 8 giger lying around make that a dedicated BT drive and use it for downloading. Try and not to download through BT to your main HDD which contains all your movies and documents. So how to protect it? Try not to download for long period of time, but if you cant do without it make sure that you attach a fan to your HDD and there is ample space for the Hot air from HDD to move out of the cabinet. It does lead to decline in the HDD life (however small it maybe). With constant read and write over a long period of time the HDDs tend to heat up (you might have noticed that same with LAN transfers). Running those PC’s all night long with BT maxing out your connection does take a toll on your HDD. Let’s not argue about whether it does that or not (will come to that latter), rather lets discuss about how to save your HDD from BT burnout. There are people who will swear by the fact that HDD are meant to store data and this is what they do, so BT is nothing to be worried about. Well using Bit Torrent does speed up the wear of your HDD’s but its not going to kill it in a few months. So, all that you have read on net, is it just crap or there is some truth behind it? There is a very good chance that you might have heard of Bit Torrent wearing your HDDs. If you are a bit torrent junkie who satisfies his daily dose of movies, serials, software, etc. ![]()
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