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Bit torrent and hard drive
Posted: 2004-09-10 10:40pm
by PainRack
I read that using bit torrent extensively tends to fragment, and overheat your hard drive. Apparently, one of the methods they suggested was to increase the disk cache, however, another just stated that you need to purchase more RAM if your com slows down.........
Err.... advice?
Posted: 2004-09-11 12:30am
by Laird
Where'd you read that? ...I do about 1-2 torrents a week on my download box.
Posted: 2004-09-11 02:13am
by Vertigo1
what the FUCK?! Link please. Sounds like a bullshit article to me. Probably some RIAA lackey trying to scare people out of using P2P software.
Posted: 2004-09-11 07:29am
by Vohu Manah
Vertigo1 wrote:what the FUCK?! Link please. Sounds like a bullshit article to me. Probably some RIAA lackey trying to scare people out of using P2P software.
Agreed, I use BitTorrent regularly as well, and I am not noticing any problems with my hard drive.
Posted: 2004-09-11 01:07pm
by General Zod
weird. i've never had any kind of problems like that using bittorrent. a source for this tidbit would be nice.
Posted: 2004-09-11 03:07pm
by phongn
Bullshit. Someone just has a HD that isn't properly ventilate and cooled so he's experiencing problems.
Some BT implementations can have extensive fragmentation depending on how they write to the drive (since they grab random chunks at a time) but other versions can pre-allocated space.
Posted: 2004-09-11 09:53pm
by Seggybop
If you specify in your BT program that you want to allocate space in advance you can eliminate any chance of fragmentation.
Posted: 2004-09-14 10:16am
by PainRack
It was some chinese article I grabbed off the web....... I don't recall where I found it.
Posted: 2004-09-14 11:17am
by Zac Naloen
PainRack wrote:It was some chinese article I grabbed off the web....... I don't recall where I found it.
If its chinese there ya go, they don't like P2P much.
Posted: 2004-09-14 11:28am
by General Zod
Zac Naloen wrote:PainRack wrote:It was some chinese article I grabbed off the web....... I don't recall where I found it.
If its chinese there ya go, they don't like P2P much.
which is odd, considering chinese laws regarding pirating. (ie - near non existent)
Posted: 2004-09-14 12:11pm
by Grand Moff Yenchin
PainRack wrote:It was some chinese article I grabbed off the web....... I don't recall where I found it.
Could it be googled?
If it was Big5 Chinese, it's obviously a rumor sent out by those MP3 witch-hunters in Taiwan. (Yes, thanks to the 301 Act, there are occasional witch-hunts there.)