Easy^ Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 Hello all.I have a problem. I recently bought a SAMSUNG 750giga 32mb SATA HDD. I use it on my laptop via USB ( yes its an external HDD ).Lately i've been having problem with disk overloading often when downloading a lot.20/20 mbit line...Sometimes it works just fine 2 MB/s sometimes it overloads and somehow the utorrent just lags out... i have to stop the process trought task manager.And than when i run it again it has to recheck all the files ( when you have 50+ of HD movies that takes like 2 hours ).And ideas how to solve this?Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Defrag the drive. Also, are you using USB 1.1 or 2.0 on your laptop? If you're using 1.1 usually a bubble will appear saying something like "this device would run faster on a 2.0 controller" or something. You might be able to tweak the cache to buy more time for the HDD to finish writing data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Don't try to kill the process, just be patient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy^ Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 The disk is practically new the usb is 2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 I'm not talking about the drives version, I'm talking about your laptops version. If it's very old it might be 1.1. Also, have you tried being patient and also defragging your drive? What file system are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy^ Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 NTFS due to HD movies? Can even put them on FAT.Laptop is less than half a year old Toshiba Sattelite a200-1m8USB is 2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 I ask because of sparse allocation, which on retarded Windows can cause heavier fragmentation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy^ Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 I do believe the overload has to do somethig with cache.... since i download multiple HD movies at the same time... still this thing could be resolved somehow, i hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Download one at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy^ Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 LOLSure like if 1 at a time on a such connection is something i'll agree on.I can't get a full speed of one, so why not having 10 splitting the connection than? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Maybe cache tweaking? I'm too lazy to look for the exact suggestions by jewelisheaven about caching settings, it's somewhere in http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=36333Might work, might not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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