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09-20-2007, 05:02 AM
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Sep 2007
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|  External harddrive for all torrents/movies etc to avoid... Hi, I just bought a very expensive top-notch laptop through our university, vista enterprise etc 9-cell battery and so on. And even though I think the HD is 5400rpm it goes lightningfast, 2gb ram. I got rid of my ordinary deskcomputer. But the needs to dl new tv shows through torrents I couldnt get rid off. I got a 250gb external USB drive. Now to the question. If I install the torrent program on that external drive, will the downloads then not affect my ordinary harddrive since I´ve heard torrents fragment the harddrive up pretty badly. And would it be wise to put firefox on that drive since I surf constantly and all the pictures, texts documents etc fragments the original harddrive? I just want this speed to sustain. And one last question, when I ran sisoft sandra it could only read and write in total 970kb/s which seems low, is it the limit of usb 2.0 or is the harddrive getting old, cause in that case Ill buy a firewire HD and a PCMCIA card with firewire ports. Any input is highly appreciated!! Thanks in advance /Nima |
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09-21-2007, 10:19 AM
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| Master Techie  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ra'anana, Israel
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   | Re: External harddrive for all torrents/movies etc to avoid... No, I do that kind of set-up on my desktop and laptop. And the limit of USB 2.0 is crazy if your download speed is that fast then your downloads should take 10 seconds.
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09-21-2007, 10:50 AM
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| Re: External harddrive for all torrents/movies etc to avoid... I download all my shareaza torrents straight on to my external with the program self contained on it along with vlc so I can watch the partial files.... This forum of course does not condone the use of torrents due to copyright laws
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09-21-2007, 09:01 PM
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| Re: External harddrive for all torrents/movies etc to avoid... no all temporary files will be saved n the location chosen which should be defaulted to the file on the external....... OP wants to download tv shows which have questionable copyright laws. I know that not all torrents are illegal and I frequently change my linux distro on my laptop using them but there is a large amount of content which is in the grey area of copyright laws
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09-21-2007, 10:29 PM
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