Im having a similar issue. When ever I download a torrent link its just telling me that the file is corrupted and can't continue. This is with the most current version of utorrent. Ive tried others as well with no success.
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Torrents not downloading in Yosemite mac
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SSDs have unlimited reads but limited writes. With the latest SSDs out there it's less of a concern, but if you were to be downloading torrents all the time (especially ones that come in a bunch of .rar files) then you'll wear out the SSD quicker.
Though you could argue that by the time wear and tear affects your SSD because of torrents, the prices of SSDs will have fallen even more. But if you have a mechanical hard drive handy, may as well use it instead of the SSD for torrents.
IMO, use SSD for BT is better than HDD. As you said, it has unlimited reads. And the problem of BT is when you downloading files, the HDD has to keep searching itself and read some data for uploading as well.
No matter how much to upload, there is only one write action for each bit of data downloaded (Even though it contain lots of RAR files). So, if you BT a 100MB file, you write 100MB to the SSD, there is no difference if you use BT or normal download.
However, for HDD, BT will introduce lots of mechanical activities due to the "read" requirement. This may cause the HDD failure rate higher than normal.
Anyway, I am not 100% sure if there is any "write" action when the BT software "read" the SSD. If it actually write something every time it read a file, this of course may wear out the SSD much quicker. May be "noatime" will help on this matter.
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Good to know, Thank you. I was contemplating getting an iMac w/ a 256 SSD for all my installed apps & app data but afraid of it not being enough storage. I was also gonna use a 4TB external to hold all my media temporarily until SSD's come down in price. Thanks again
I pretty much exclusively download torrents to an external 1TB drive. Works fine.
Hmm. Pictures of celebrities huh?
Unlikely a firewall issue. Are you sure the torrents are even available? eg there may not be any seeders available at all, they may not have the file (just the metadata) or they may have chosen not to upload. All this information is available from the Transmission interface.
Id also use HMA... Hide my ass as a VPN. Great software and never had any issues. fyi
In many cases the port is shown to be closed, nonetheless Transmission works.
To answer your question: Transmission is considered to be the best torrent client.
utorrent was just found to be doing silent installs of bitcoin mining software.
http://gizmodo.com/your-torrent-client-might-be-mining-bitcoin-without-tel-1689852069
Hi,
Im facing a similiar issue with blocked torrents on OS Yosemite. But only with ".app" files. I can download albums and other files just fine, but this particular ".app" will not, even though the rest of the torrent downloads just fine. I even disabled Bitdefender and tried again. Still the nothing. Using Utorrent not the latest version
Thanks!
Im facing a similiar issue with blocked torrents on OS Yosemite. But only with ".app" files. I can download albums and other files just fine, but this particular ".app" will not, even though the rest of the torrent downloads just fine. I even disabled Bitdefender and tried again. Still the nothing. Using Utorrent not the latest version
Thanks!