aLcATRAZ Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 Hey everyone I'm doing the blasphemous act of downloading to a MicroSD card (on a windows computer). I suppose anyone downloading to a usb drive or memory card would love to know the same info as me. With Windows 10+ write cache being what it is, pretty good. What's recommended today (2022) when it comes to disk cache settings for protecting flash storage? I see many users fixing bottlenecks by disabling uTorrent disk cache and going with windows cache only. Is that advisable? I'd love if there was a "flash storage" disk cache setting to reduce unnecessary writes. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiusX Posted October 13, 2022 Report Share Posted October 13, 2022 Is there a reason why the computer can't store the current download and actions? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLcATRAZ Posted October 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2022 53 minutes ago, PiusX said: Is there a reason why the computer can't store the current download and actions? First of all, thanks for reading and replying. No. It's a tiny little mini computer with a small system drive at 32GB. Like a NUC but smaller, the size of a cigarette box The way to expand storage is with the microsd slot. I have a 128GB card in it but you can put larger. The reason I'm using it is because it's low power, passive cooling etc. It's kind of a machine you can offload some tasks onto. I suppose attaching an nvme drive in a usb enclosure would provide all the write endurance you could ever need, but it also feels like overkill. Instead of doing that I'm simply using a memory card that's like "high endurance". You know the kind that's for dashcams etc. They can take a fair amount of writes. Unfortunately they don't have an even distribution of wear like the ssd drives do, so I'm just wondering if there's any setting that could be beneficial to extending the life of this flash storage. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 I cannot think of any setting that can make a big impact. Just use a larger fixed size cache as your RAM allows. Unless mobility/standalone is important, I'd consider using a network drive, a native one, or any drive on any other PC... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLcATRAZ Posted October 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 Would you trust utorrent or windows disk cache more? Or both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLcATRAZ Posted October 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 18 hours ago, rafi said: I cannot think of any setting that can make a big impact. Just use a larger fixed size cache as your RAM allows. Unless mobility/standalone is important, I'd consider using a network drive, a native one, or any drive on any other PC... Forgot to quote you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted October 15, 2022 Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 I trust my settings (file is in my sig... ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLcATRAZ Posted October 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2022 Thanks. I really appreciate it. I'm still on utorrent 2.2.1. Is that insane? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted October 16, 2022 Report Share Posted October 16, 2022 Yes and no... Old bugs are all in, but if you don't like the new design I suppose you are good to go... I suggest to just try the new one (as standalone, somewhere else) and deside... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiusX Posted October 20, 2022 Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 And no bugs I used 2.2.1 for so long and have no issue. It's that if you ask for support on it no one will help with that. But to get more storage you will have to get a external HDD or larger USB to store torrents otherwise you will have to get a mini-tower to do your torrent where you can have HDD to store more torrents that are downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLcATRAZ Posted October 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 On 10/20/2022 at 8:23 AM, PiusX said: And no bugs I used 2.2.1 for so long and have no issue. It's that if you ask for support on it no one will help with that. But to get more storage you will have to get a external HDD or larger USB to store torrents otherwise you will have to get a mini-tower to do your torrent where you can have HDD to store more torrents that are downloaded. Thanks for your input. Are you still on 2.2.1 today? Then I'm not alone. The download machine is at my parents home. It's because my own internet isn't always stable. I can copy the torrents over after they're downloaded. This takes less time. That's also why I don't really need much space because I don't store them on the download machine. I could however benefit from fewer writes onto the flash storage so I'm just trying to work out the cache settings. I suppose a ram drive would have the least writes but it's not going to work when you download a torrent that's over the ramdrive's size. So I'm just looking for the next best thing. Would you do utorrent + windows write disk cache or just utorrent? Also, should I format the flash storage with a larger default allocation size? I heard using a larger one reduces amount of writes. Maybe I'm wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiusX Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) Another is you installed utorrent on the main computer but make download folders on your USB drive or Portable HDD ext drive case then you download and not worry the only problems if they start utorrent and the links aren't saved it will look for the device to try to save to and could cause issues. That would be the biggest downside here. I've only used default Windows and Ut settings and have on issue so far using those settings. If you use ext device storage to download to you should set to only 1-2 torrents or the size of the torrent to finish before doing more torrents. Yeah, 2.2.1 works great for me as trying v3 once was enough to sour my relationship with utorrent and went back to v2 and haven't looked back. They talk about security issues but if it just torrent I don't think that will cause much problem as I am not using utorrent to run the file or view the files when done. By limiting the torrent download you will know once done you don't have to worry about leaving it running to finish if you only limit the torrent download so it gets completed. Edited November 3, 2022 by PiusX revise 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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