NAS with bittorrent - bad for hard disk?

[rudeboymcc]

Hi. I've currently got an old athlon xp pc whcih i use to download stuff off bittorrent and to store all my files and want to replace it with something smaller.

I've found a lot of NAS boxes (like synology's) which have built in bittorent clients. one thing i'm worried about though, surely so much activity is really bad for the lifespan of the hard disk? in the pc i have an old hard disk just to download stuff onto then i move them across to the good hard disk.

am i being stupid?

and has anyone got any experience with these bittorrent clients?

 

[sanaxe1]

yes are being silly

 

[metachi]

nope not silly at all, thats what they ment to do.
they designed to run 24/7.

Just like server.

 

[rudeboymcc]

is there some sort of cache so say 8 mb is downloaded and then written to the hard disk? or does this depend on the nas?