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Só as the title saying I am downloading a 300gb torrent and on my 1TB HDD now I have it over 320gb to download the files but keeps running out of pace on the drive indicating it is taking more than the 300gb it is supposed to be; does anyone know why. 

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U torrent it could be any thing most propley mole wear or spy wear or virus.  

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3 hours ago, SparkySamZa said:

Só as the title saying I am downloading a 300gb torrent and on my 1TB HDD now I have it over 320gb to download the files but keeps running out of pace on the drive indicating it is taking more than the 300gb it is supposed to be; does anyone know why. 

First off: What are you trying to download that is 300GB? that is a freaking huge file.

 

Secondly: I am not sure why this occurs, Maybe clear out some more space on your hard drive? or get a cheap 500gb - 1tb external hdd and tell utorrent to download the file to there?

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15 minutes ago, VulcanAndroid said:

First off: What are you trying to download that is 300GB? that is a freaking huge file.

 

Secondly: I am not sure why this occurs, Maybe clear out some more space on your hard drive? or get a cheap 500gb - 1tb external hdd and tell utorrent to download the file to there?

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If we assume you are downloading something that is knowen not to contain bloatware, viruses and such:

It could be that due to the constant user switching, from whom you are downloading, the system just f*ed up some of the content or double downloaded some.

Another possibility would be that, due to the size of the size (if it is a single, 300GB and not multiple smaler that sum up to that), windows/utorrent need to allocate additional space for stuff and things.

Another option, though very very unlikely, your HDD has dead sectors which the system tryes to avoid.

 

Either way once the file has finished downloading it should return to the actual size of 300GB. Though I'm also curious what the heck you are downloading.

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The torrent can end up being downloaded in various chunks which are stored as temp files until the download is finished and the resulting temp files are combined into one file. Due to the way files are stored in "sectors", the temp files could take up more than 300GB of space before they are combined.

 

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