Bit torrent and hard drive

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2004-09-10 10:40pm

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?

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-09-11 12:30am

Where'd you read that? ...I do about 1-2 torrents a week on my download box.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-11 02:13am

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.

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2004-09-11 07:29am

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.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-09-11 01:07pm

weird. i've never had any kind of problems like that using bittorrent. a source for this tidbit would be nice.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-11 03:07pm

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.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2004-09-11 09:53pm

If you specify in your BT program that you want to allocate space in advance you can eliminate any chance of fragmentation.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2004-09-14 10:16am

It was some chinese article I grabbed off the web....... I don't recall where I found it.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-09-14 11:17am

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.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-09-14 11:28am

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)

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2004-09-14 12:11pm

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.)