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[tfunk]

I've heard that downloading .torrents causes the hard drives needle to be continually writing over the duration of the download and that this can reduce the hard drives life expectancy dramatically.

Should I be leaving my laptop on all night? I've just bought a new laptop.

[Bigfeet]

Well yeah, the more your hard drive work the shorter its lifespan. I've never let that stop me before though. Just buy a new hard drive every 3 to 5 years. They're getting cheaper every year.

[tfunk]

[Bigfeet]

[oldtactics]

It's almost guaranteed that you'll buy a new computer well before the hard drive wears out on this one. Torrents do wear the hard drive but I wouldn't say it's 'dramatic' by any means. I feel strongly that the benefits of torrents far out way any negatives.

[Temporary]

Actually in my time as a computer professional we found that hard drives that were spinning and never went to sleep lasted longer then drives that had power savings. I think the stop and go did more damage then a drive spinning all the time.

[registered]

Dell uses the same drives as everyone else.

[swigs]

I think newer torrent programs help with this problem by partitioning a small amount of space in your HD for a new file. (Or something like that) So your HD doesnt have to work as hard.

So if your using a torrent program a couple years old, time to upgrade it.

Also to the OP, if your worried about your HD crashing you should back up all the files you care about to an external HD anyways. A HD can crash anytime.

[Goodgoings]

[sojourner1]

Many use an external drive. You get em' huge for a hundred bucks now.

I've had laptop hard disks fail due to the fan going out causing it to overheat. If you hear a screeching, squeeling, or funny noise, back everything the heck up if you can. If you are having difficulties booting a computer, save the things you want to keep if you manage to boot after many tries, becuase it's almost over for the hard disk.


I'm ready to see the computers go completely solid state like Nintendo was and the OS to be onscreen in a jiffy as well as no hard disk or moving parts wearing out. Solid state microchipping is the way to go.

Why do old Nintendos still work 20 years later, but today's computers fail often? Hard disks foul up, but microchips might stay good for a thousand years or more. They're encased in solid carbon. Someone far in the future probably will play an original Nintendo, but they won't recover my hard disk they find in a dump or archeological site.