Computer specs perfered for BitTorrent?

[Torture_Artist]

Are there any specifications that would be best for filesharing, specifically BitTorrent? I know high disk capacity, and high disk cache, but anything else?

[nalo]

Not really. uTorrent is notoriously light-weight. Disk write speed may be a concern if you have an extremely fast connection. Unlikely though! Decent router would help too.

[will17]

As nalo said. You'd probably want to have a good router and a big HDD. The CPU and RAM req's are pretty low.

[grimms]

As long as you don't have a 486 cpu (1993) pre windows 95 or NT you should be fine. If you have any computer that has been made since a pentium III, then you should have nothing to worry about as far as bittorrent. You probably want to have a large HDD though and 512 MB of ram minimum. For storage capacity and processing, disk cache issues.

[TP635]

I use a 5 year old pc, with just 512mb ram and a very slow processor running on win2k. It never hang and never give me problem.
edit : I use utorrent

[DanielleD87]

each software has its min requirements. some higher then others. also, if you get in the 100megbit/s range or higher then hdd caching helps a lot.

[Argyle]

As long as you don't have a 486 cpu (1993) pre windows 95 or NT you should be fine. If you have any computer that has been made since a pentium III, then you should have nothing to worry about as far as bittorrent. You probably want to have a large HDD though and 512 MB of ram minimum. For storage capacity and processing, disk cache issues.
you can use a 486 if you use rtorrent :)

[Ronnie Coleman]

If you planning to keep that PC always on - consider buying great powerful PSU. ;)

[lubu]

Get ready to spend a lot on storage....

[Cabalo]

a good onboard raid-controller, u should try to use disks in raid0 mode in case u have a fast internet connection and want to do sth else with the comp while downloading.

[cocalait]

Nice HD space would be perfect, also cache and writing speed (if you have a reaaally fast connection). 512 ram is ok, 1GB is optimal. And a good PSU is key since if you are going to have it on 24hs, you better give the machine some stability and power.

[bikernin]

theres a few factors on which this would depend. mainly what is the speed of your connection? what is the average file size of your downloads? and how many torrents do you have active simultaneously? only if all three of these are on the higher end should you consider buying a 15k rpm HDD, RAID controller, 1 TB+ storage etc. otherwise just about any PC config would do. im guessing your current pc should be more than sufficient. at most you may need a new HDD, but again that depends on how much you download

[jam0980tr]

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