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Does downloading to an external hd use internal storage temporarily?


tehhparadox

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Hi all

 

I have a laptop with an SSD so obviously torrenting directly to the internal storage is not a good idea. I have an external hard drive which i can use to torrent to, but does utorrent client temporarily store data to the internal drive before copying over to the download location?

 

Thanks

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No.

Is this definitely certain?  I regularly observe slow trickles of bytes during DL, easily less than a full disc block.  Unless uTorrent is forever writing out fragments, then rereading them, merging the latest arrival, and writing them again, I would expect it to be accumulating enough bytes in a local cache to allow writing a complete block each time.  The thrashing associated with reprocessing the same disc blocks while "writing" would be very inefficient.

 

Edit:  Oops, just realized, the local cache would be memory -- sorry about that :P!

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