Castle_Romeo Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Hello,I installed Gavotte RAMDisk on my computer and I am wondering how to configure it and uTorrent.I'd like to move the uTorrent cache to the ramdisk (Drive R:\). This utility is said to prolong hard disk life when used in conjunction with Bittorrent software....Please fill me in on how to properly configure both programs.Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 So you want to "preserve" your hard drive by making it spin down and up more rather than keeping it moving at a constant speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castle_Romeo Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 P2P programs shorten hard disk life by the constant read-writes to a P2P cache. By moving some of this to the RAM, the hard disk isn't overloaded by the constant reads and writes to this cache.....The hard disk doesn't spin down but moving the cache to the RAM via a RAMdisk takes a serious load off the hard disk.This is what the makers of Gavotte RAMdisk claim anyways.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 A hard drive is specifically designed for the constant reads and writes. Using a RAMdrive in that manner is more likely to cause the failure than prevent it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Hard drives do not really age more or less by using them. They tend to simply die from being turned on and off a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakevlad Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Hello all !I'm in optical fiber and around 4Mo/s downloading, microtorrent say that my harddrive is 100% loading...And cash somtimes !It's a laptop and the harddrive is not very fast....Now I used the same way as Castle_Romeo : Ramdisk around 1.5Gb And it works so well !!! Around 10Mo/s ! No freezing,no slowdown,no crash, nothing ... even a power cut dont do anything ... switching to battery.I dont understand why microtorrent dont use this way... ???and it's "green programing" i mean it's better to use this power memoy (allready start...) instead of use the harddrive all along the downloading. At the end of the download, the file could be move to the hard drive automatically. less power used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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