uTorrent on SSD

[demux]

Naturally, SSD owners like to keep write cycles on to a minimum.

Obviously, I do not download content to my SSD ;-)

But, recently I've been checking Disk I/O activity with 'Recourse Monitor'

(Vista and Win7 only)

I discovered that uTorrent writes resume.dat every 30 sec, plus some

activity in settings.dat file.

In my case, resume.dat is approx 500kb large.

Let's do the math: Roughly 1.4 GB of writes in one day! That's a lot, IMO.

So, I decided to offload these activities on to a mechanical drive.

However, I could not find any options application wise, which would allow

me moving utorrent config folder to an other location.

However, a symbolic link does the trick: Mklink /D 'link folder' 'target

folder'

Enjoy

[Firon]

If you run utorrent in standalone mode by copying the exe and, at minimum, settings.dat together, you can then have it run from any directory you'd like. http://www.utorrent.com/faq/installation#faq4

[demux]

That is good to know, TY

[Saribro]

Roughly 1.4 GB of writes in one day! That's a lot, IMO.

To put this in perspective: Super Talent 60GiB MLC SSDs (those are the slower/shorter life ones) are rated to last for just under 33 years at 50Gib of write-erase ops per day. OCZ and Samsung 64GiB SLC SSDs (faster, longer life) are rated for over 350 years (no joke, three hundred and fifty) at the same 50Gib of write-erase ops per day.

These were drivers released over a year ago.