About BitTorrent influencing the hard drive - PART 1

BitTorrent is a good download tools, the more people download, the higher the speed is and is slowly accepted by people. But there is one big problem which is, will BT damage the hard drive?

Everyone knows that BT can provide very high download speed because when downloading at the same time, also provide uploading services to other peers who download the same torrent file. Therefore, the hard drive have to withstand 1 download and N-1 upload(which is you provide download services to other peers) at the same time. If there are Nx10 or Nx100 individual download at the same time, then it will bring very high usage to the hard drive and thus damage the hard drive.

The hard drive have a measurement which is call MTBF (mean time between failures). The MTBF is a rating used in the computer industry that attempts to predict the time between failure. Usually, normal hard drive have MTBF of at least 30000 hours, but the time we use BT is less than this time, so using BT may not have much effect to the hard drive. BUT, using BT in some degree will definitely decrease the hard drive lifetime. Hence, we must be very careful with the time when using BT and also implement some optimization measures so that this influence can be neglected.

In conclusion, please be very careful with BT. Do not ever be too optimistic that BT in very high speed is a good thing or else you will end up regretting that all of your precious data/information lost together with your hard drive which is very bad.

The above information is translated and edited by Yong Wen Fei

Original Sources - Internet References
简单设置，BT下载时保护硬盘 - ゞＷǒ眞de愛妳メぢ - 网易博客, [DOC, Online], 30 May 2007
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