Last Saturday, µTorrent 1.6 was released and the best thing since sliced bread… just got even better.
The new version features improved download and upload speeds. It also handles BitComet peers better than the previous versions. This tiny bit torrent client now features revamped intelligent configurable disk caching system which actually protects your hard drive. This new feature may increase resource utility when enabled but the increase is minimal. With disk caching feature on, I normally get around 13MB memory usage but when the downloads are finished and when the caching is not needed, µTorrent maintains a very low footprint of 7MB which is comparable to early versions of µTorrent.
µTorrent 1.6 also has an auto shutdown feature. This is useful to leechers but not really useful to bit torrent seeders. After all you won’t need to turn off your computer after downloading because you want to upload, upload and upload to increase your share ratio.
Over all I’m glad that µTorrent 1.6 lives up to the µTorrent’s trademark: it’s still very small and resource friendly. Even with the disk caching system on it didn’t have a significant degration on performance. Actually, I didn’t notice the difference on performance when the disk cache is on and off. All I know is that it saves my hard drive so I just enable it.
Two thumbs up to Ludde and company. :)
Links:
µTorrent official website: http://www.utorrent.com
