It might shorten the life of the drive a little bit but you do that every time you access the drive to do anything on the comptuer anyway. If you are really worried about something happening like that when you have bittorrent open then you just need to close the program when you aren't using it.transviruses said:i heard that bit torrent programs really damages ur hard drive cuz they keep ur hard drive working all the time once u start downloading files or once u open the bt program ist true?