Worried About Data Loss

[Flotsam]

Is there any possible way that data can be corrupted or loss through a torrent (other than people sending bad data)? I'm currently downloading a torrent that is nearly 67GB in size, and I see a lot of potential for this.

Basically, I'm just asking for reassurance in the peer to peer system.

[moogly]

2 possibilities:

1/ If the initial seeder has uploaded a torrent about corrupted data, so yes, you are dwling corrupted files (or a part).

2/ Torrent is fine but you have an hardware issue (bad HD sector, RAM issue...) and your data are corrupted on your HD even if uT does its job correctly.

uT uses hashing method so pieces with bad hash and corrupted during the dwling are discarded and redwled.

[thelittlefire]

Bittorrent is byte-exact from source. Even if you get sent bad data it is discarded inline and downloaded anew. http://dessent.net/btfaq/#what should help explain some about torrenting.

[Flotsam]

Thank you very much. I haven't had that much time to read up on the P2P system, and as a result, it always seemed a bit shady to me, but thank you for clearing up my misconceptions.

[Switeck]

BitTorrent may be more reliable than simple windows sharing of folders when errors occur...I'm not aware of Windows auto-correcting.

[moogly]

Yeah it would be fine if the client would have the possibility to share data on the same computer, eg between 2 partitions or HD.