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  • Not really, at least not because of the data access. Drives mainly die because of their age.
    SSDs will basically not degrade by reading them, they only degrade when you write to them.
    HDDs can get degraded because of data access, but most HDD deaths are caused by bearing failures or head crashes, which are more of a matter of power-on hours.

    What all of this means is that if you already kept your device on 24/7, your drives aren’t gonna degrade noticeably faster by having your torrent client accessing them all the time.