Does downloading Torrents cause excessive wear on hard drives?

Posted by Hugo on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Hugo
Published on 2009-09-29T11:34:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 3:55 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 175

I suspect that the most stressful to a HDD is being used as a target for downloading torrents. I plan to get a new HDD and use the old one only for storing downloads in progress.

Is this true? How much stress is there on an idle HDD?

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about Hardware

Related posts about bittorrent