Bit torrenting on a Laptop / Notebook

[DannyGnXz]

Just wondering if any of you do Torrenting on a laptop, whether it is exclusively or just part time?

Just curious if anyone has muff'd a hard drive or to doing this or if they use external drives to do it.

What are your views and / or experiences?

[arbaal]

I have an old toshiba 4070cdt dedicated for torrents, it uses many less power than normal pc and it almost makes no sound so it's running 24/7. When room on hdd is filling up (40gb) i just transfer files (seeded at least to 1 ratio:]) to my main station and rip them.

[bornwithnoname]

I use my laptop for BT mostly because all I have is my laptop. As ratio goes over 1:1.25 I move the file to my NAS. Works just fine for me.

[Rumblin]

I do it on my laptop, but since they dont have such a huge lifetime like PC's do, I only use it part-time beacuse laptop>torrenting

[mievmo]

I do... it's hard man. i can't leave it on for an week.. every 2 days an 3 hours off :/ - giving him some rest :/

[yellomello]

I do. I use an external hard drive and a laptop cooler. (The ones with fans) The laptop stays on 24/7 and stays very cool.

[wrongun92]

I have heard that you shouldnt max out on the laptops. It might be better to get a cheap pc and do your torrenting there. But you can always experiment ;)

[stoi]

500mhz sony vaio laptop, i ran a bnbt tracker for 2 years, seeded on it (initial seed as well), dl with usenet, transfered to XBOX HDD, rared 4gig games (took 4 hours) was on for most of that time.

still works fine to this day and no upgrades at all, its still got the same 12gig hdd and 8meg gfx card in it.

so if that laptop can do that, then surely laptops these days can handle utorrent for a few weeks.

[Polarbear]

Just wondering if any of you do Torrenting on a laptop, whether it is exclusively or just part time?

Just curious if anyone has muff'd a hard drive or to doing this or if they use external drives to do it.

What are your views and / or experiences?

you can leave a macbook running for month without turning it off.

nothing will happen.

turn off the screen of course to save power.

[Rumblin]

And kill every process and application running, surely without the wi-fi and utorrent running....

[wrongun92]

500mhz sony vaio laptop, i ran a bnbt tracker for 2 years, seeded on it (initial seed as well), dl with usenet, transfered to XBOX HDD, rared 4gig games (took 4 hours) was on for most of that time.

still works fine to this day and no upgrades at all, its still got the same 12gig hdd and 8meg gfx card in it.

so if that laptop can do that, then surely laptops these days can handle utorrent for a few weeks.

I wonder if my Dell laptop would be able to handle that much pressure.

[fstokebanget]

leaving for such a long time would shorten the life of your laptop. When doing a torrent the cpu, the harddrive, all of the system will work harder. But it depends on how many torrents you download, if you just upload what you have download that wouldn't need the system to work harder, but if you're downloading more than 30 torrents that would cause the system works to reach it's limit.

if you want to dedicate your laptop for torrent, I suggest you install Linux on it, it eats less resources than Windows. For Mac OS users, that would be fine, because it's basiclly a BSD system.

[orfik]

I use my laptop for everything, including torrents, and I max it out 24/7. It's been running fine for ~5 years, along with my externals. It is an IBM, though. Sure that has something to do with it.

[JROQuinn]

had my Toshiba M45-S165 for 4 years 1 gig ram, 100gig hd & been using it for everything, never turn it off :) but I go through 1 harddrive a year. As for torrenting, when my ratios get 1:1 on my files I transfer the ones that are from trackers that give up bonus to another desktop pc & let it seed at the minimum of 3-5 kbs