Torrents and NTFS-3G
If you’re a Linux or Mac user and sometimes download torrents, there’s a decent chance you have a couple of outboard hard drives to hold all that legal, public-domain data. If those drives are formatted as NTFS that probably means you are using the NTFS-3G filesystem driver. Unfortunately, because of the wildly parallel disk access patterns of most torrent clients, the NTFS driver can gobble all of your CPU time. You are much better off downloading to a native drive (i.e. ext3, hfs), and moving the data to your NTFS drive later.
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