bittorrent affects on SSD

[steve wilson]

Hi,
I have the bittorrent program installed on my SSD, but the media files are stored on a mechanical drive. Will this affect my SSD at all. Should I have the program installed on the mechanical drive?

 

[biostud]

If you also have the temporary files on the mechanical drive it shouldn't affect the SSD.

 

[Veliko]

In terms of wear it shouldn't really make any difference. If you are downloading a 1GB file it is only going to write the file once (plus a bit of overhead) in the same way as if you were copying the file from another hard drive.

Unless someone knows differently.

 

[DirkGently1]

Dear god! Can we all stop FUD about 'wear' already please. It's getting tedious. There's absolutely no excuse for still regurgitating the same old rubbish in light of the vast wealth of knowledge that exists on the subject. The NAND in your SSD is NOT going to go into catatonic shock just because you dared write a few Bits of data to it!

My Storage drive is an SSD and i fully expect it to outlast the HDD that i once had. Chances are it will outlast me, and i write to that sucker constantly!