i am speaking from personal experiences, that the daily use of utorrent to download torrents has a very bad effect on hard disks. the constant reads and writes. i think there is a limit. and due to torrents that gets closer. now i have got 3 dead hdds (10 year old 40GB seagate, 7 year old 80GB western digital, 4 year old 1TB western digital). THEY ALL DIED AT DIFFERENT TIMES. 6 MONTHS APART MAYBE. and the most recent one to be following them is a seagate 500GB one which is 5 years old. i also have a 2TB wd one which is the other one working alongwith my 500GB one.
the thing is out of all those the one which has seen least use of utorrent is still active. which is the 500GB one. but the ones which were used extensively are dead, vis a vis, 40, 80, 1000 GB ones.
the thing is after my motherboard died (ASUS a8n vm. A64 3000+, dinosaur), i have been using my laptop to download torrents. and that my friends. seems to have started a series of never ending lags after every 30 seconds or so. and after much troubleshooting. the culprit seems to be my 640GB toshiba hdd. and it only gave trouble after extensive use of torrents. i mean i downloaded over 100GBs in a week.
what i need from you ladies and gentlemen is an opinion on this and also personal experiences of this kind, if god forbid, there were any?
thank you.
