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if you DL a torrent do you really need to run the md5?
the torrent will not start to seed and give you 100% if it didn't dl exact correct?
so am i wasting my time or is it still needed
thanks
As long as you're still seeding the torrent, it will do a hash check which is fairly analogous to md5 (with the added bonus that if anything doesn't match, it will re-download that segment). So you're wasting your time as long as you're still seeding that torrent.
Once you've copied the data to another hard drive, backed up to a DVD, or whatever, md5 (or ffp for flac, if you want the flexibility to change your tagging and still validate okay) is your friend. Windows is supposed to do some redundancy check on file copies, but still I've seen failures numerous time after a file copy, which is why I pretty much always copy, validate, and delete instead of just moving files, especially when moving a large amount of data in one shot.