Transmission

So this means that no matter what I set the preference to on Transmission OS X, it will get preallocated?

As I understand it Transmission preallocates space however now that flash drives/SSDs have become popular this is a hindrance not a help as it was on HDs, it just occupies space and shortens the drive life. For desktop platforms, would it be possible to a) expose the preallocation preference in the ...

As in Vuze 5.6. http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Swarm_Merging Vuze automatically detects when two or more of your incomplete downloads share one or more files of identical size and will attempt to merge the torrent swarms to download the file faster or, possibly, complete an existing file with bad availabili...