Hard disk philosophy is that the head will get degraded when you read and write too much. The moment your hard disk is not idle, it is using up it's lifespan and have chances to crash the head. When you read you still have to provide some voltage to amplify the magnetic from the disk.

Summary.
Hard disk - Read write BT will spoil the HD faster.
SSD - Read won't but write will spoil SSD faster.

using HD tune + intel SSD toolbox + crystaldisk this 3 software...

What?? I never know it, my rig at home use for heavy torrenting atleast 20-40GB/day for blueray movie and music, system itself are pentium4 2003 with 80GB harddisk, till now only gc have problem, already 11 years still no prob to HDD

you are more crazy than I, 20~40 GB per day + 11 years still ok

lol... what HDD brand is it? model of it pls? SATA or IDE(PATA)?

This post has been edited by marine88: Jan 18 2014, 12:45 AM

should be IDE.
logic of technologies :

Older - More durable, Weak performance
Latest - Strong performance, less durable.

just my opinion though.

yup, i super 100% agree with you...

frequent torrent will damage the harddisk due to read/write from peer or peer sharing

Western Digital, during that time SATA infamous, still using IDE.
even mother board also so tough till now, surprisingly AGP gaphic card already fail me 2 times,

rosak beli baru.. LOL

i'm heavy downloader... i guess my HDD bye2 soon :'(

maybe somewhere is the truth

really depends...

i ve a Hitachi 320GB SATA2 one until now still refuse to die, even though everyday also BT...

all i can say for electronic stuff is that u never know when it wants to die...

i think there are two areas to be specific for this:
a.) HDD/ SDD will get spoil due too much reading and writing from torrents - Seems to have some basis for this but generally i think they are acceptable, moderation should be the key

b.) PowerSupply Torrents are left open overnight for downloading - (not really the cube powersupply, i am referring to the unit that converts 240v to DC) i think this part blows the laptop faster since most laptop are not built to run for days ... desktop power supplies (and definitely servers) are better built for this

really, this also depends on the quality of the power supply, be it desktop or laptop...

i tend not to switch of my main computer, last time laptop and now desktop, mainly since I ve setup VPN to retrieve files as and when i need when i am outside...

Yes, any computer can be a torrent server but whether or not its a good torrent server, that's a different story.

Here's some of the characteristics for a good torrenting server
1. Low power consumption - Power consumption is very important because high power consumption = more $$ to be paid on the electricity fee. For the selection of processor, there are some series of intel's i3/i5/i7 that have low TDP.
2. Good power supply - since these computers will be on 24/7, so having a good power supply will ensure that your computer doesn't burst one day out of a sudden.
3. Less unneeded peripherals - if your computer had already had an integrated gpu, then it would be unnecessary to add in a discrete graphic card as it only adds in more point of failure.

Things like amount of storage pretty much depends on the user so I won't comment on that.

and, I'm talking bout a pure torrenting server, so you may exclude some of the points above into consideration if you plan to use it as your daily machine.

Torrenting doesn't use too much of cpu power so any cpu would suffice(from Pentium 2 till i7 and beyond).

my hdd in my x42de gonna 'kong' gua.. since phenom release quite uncomfortable heat.. and, let it dl and on the whole nite until next morning

just need to del the tor. file, remove and del . to protect it being seeded, the longer your pc seed, the hdd will work longer. just like taking ur car to run for 300km without resting