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Torrents not downloading in Yosemite mac

Im having a similar issue. When ever I download a torrent link its just telling me that the file is corrupted and can't continue. This is with the most current version of utorrent. Ive tried others as well with no success.
 
scapegoat81 said:
Why wouldn't you write torrents to an SSD ? Serious question by the way....
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SSDs have unlimited reads but limited writes. With the latest SSDs out there it's less of a concern, but if you were to be downloading torrents all the time (especially ones that come in a bunch of .rar files) then you'll wear out the SSD quicker.

Though you could argue that by the time wear and tear affects your SSD because of torrents, the prices of SSDs will have fallen even more. But if you have a mechanical hard drive handy, may as well use it instead of the SSD for torrents.
 
Kilamite said:
SSDs have unlimited reads but limited writes. With the latest SSDs out there it's less of a concern, but if you were to be downloading torrents all the time (especially ones that come in a bunch of .rar files) then you'll wear out the SSD quicker.

Though you could argue that by the time wear and tear affects your SSD because of torrents, the prices of SSDs will have fallen even more. But if you have a mechanical hard drive handy, may as well use it instead of the SSD for torrents.
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IMO, use SSD for BT is better than HDD. As you said, it has unlimited reads. And the problem of BT is when you downloading files, the HDD has to keep searching itself and read some data for uploading as well.

No matter how much to upload, there is only one write action for each bit of data downloaded (Even though it contain lots of RAR files). So, if you BT a 100MB file, you write 100MB to the SSD, there is no difference if you use BT or normal download.

However, for HDD, BT will introduce lots of mechanical activities due to the "read" requirement. This may cause the HDD failure rate higher than normal.

Anyway, I am not 100% sure if there is any "write" action when the BT software "read" the SSD. If it actually write something every time it read a file, this of course may wear out the SSD much quicker. May be "noatime" will help on this matter.
 
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Kilamite said:
SSDs have unlimited reads but limited writes. With the latest SSDs out there it's less of a concern, but if you were to be downloading torrents all the time (especially ones that come in a bunch of .rar files) then you'll wear out the SSD quicker.

Though you could argue that by the time wear and tear affects your SSD because of torrents, the prices of SSDs will have fallen even more. But if you have a mechanical hard drive handy, may as well use it instead of the SSD for torrents.
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Good to know, Thank you. I was contemplating getting an iMac w/ a 256 SSD for all my installed apps & app data but afraid of it not being enough storage. I was also gonna use a 4TB external to hold all my media temporarily until SSD's come down in price. Thanks again
 
Hi just had a question when I download say images of a celebrity via torrent the download doesnt start.

However when I download a pdf version of a book the torrent downloads!

Is this some crazy firewall doing its stuff? Kindly assist
 
shankar2 said:
Hi just had a question when I download say images of a celebrity via torrent the download doesnt start.

However when I download a pdf version of a book the torrent downloads!

Is this some crazy firewall doing its stuff? Kindly assist
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Hmm. Pictures of celebrities huh?

Unlikely a firewall issue. Are you sure the torrents are even available? eg there may not be any seeders available at all, they may not have the file (just the metadata) or they may have chosen not to upload. All this information is available from the Transmission interface.
 
Hi ur right seeds were not there for some files! I tried other titles and they download fine
 
Thanks a lot guys I'm now able to download torrents and am using bit torrent client.

Quick question any reason why I should use transmission or u torrent etc?
 
shankar2 said:
Thanks a lot guys I'm now able to download torrents and am using bit torrent client.

Quick question any reason why I should use transmission or u torrent etc?
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Id also use HMA... Hide my ass as a VPN. Great software and never had any issues. fyi🙂
 
shankar2 said:
New Update: I tried transmission in my old mac running mavericks and the port is closed there too in prefs. So I guess it's either my router or adsl modem or my ISP that's blocking ports now. What should I do now? Thanks!
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In many cases the port is shown to be closed, nonetheless Transmission works.
To answer your question: Transmission is considered to be the best torrent client.
 
Hi,
Im facing a similiar issue with blocked torrents on OS Yosemite. But only with ".app" files. I can download albums and other files just fine, but this particular ".app" will not, even though the rest of the torrent downloads just fine. I even disabled Bitdefender and tried again. Still the nothing. Using Utorrent not the latest version
Thanks!
 
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