<p>The default path setup suggested by some docker developers that encourages people to use mounts like <code>/movies</code>, <code>/tv</code> and <code>/downloads</code> is very suboptimal because it makes them look like two or three file systems, even if they aren’t. It is the easiest way to get started. While easy to use, it has a major drawback. Mainly losing the ability to hardlink or instant move, resulting in a slower and more I/O intensive copy + delete is used.</p>
<p>But you're able to change this, by not using the pre-defined/recommended paths like:</p>
<p>The default path setup suggested by some docker developers that encourages people to use mounts like <code>/movies</code>, <code>/tv</code> and <code>/downloads</code> is very suboptimal because it makes them look like two or three file systems, even if they aren’t. It is the easiest way to get started. While easy to use, it has a major drawback. Mainly losing the ability to hardlink or instant move, resulting in a slower and more I/O intensive copy + delete is used.</p>
<p>But you're able to change this, by not using the pre-defined/recommended paths like:</p>
<p>The default path setup suggested by some docker developers that encourages people to use mounts like <code>/movies</code>, <code>/tv</code> and <code>/downloads</code> is very suboptimal because it makes them look like two or three file systems, even if they aren’t. It is the easiest way to get started. While easy to use, it has a major drawback. Mainly losing the ability to hardlink or instant move, resulting in a slower and more I/O intensive copy + delete is used.</p>
<p>But you're able to change this, by not using the pre-defined/recommended paths like:</p>
<p>The default path setup suggested by some docker developers that encourages people to use mounts like <code>/movies</code>, <code>/tv</code> and <code>/downloads</code> is very suboptimal because it makes them look like two or three file systems, even if they aren’t. It is the easiest way to get started. While easy to use, it has a major drawback. Mainly losing the ability to hardlink or instant move, resulting in a slower and more I/O intensive copy + delete is used.</p>
<p>But you're able to change this, by not using the pre-defined/recommended paths like:</p>
<p><code>Tools</code> =><code>Options</code> =><code>Downloads</code> (Or click on the cogwheel to access the options)</p>
<h3id="when-adding-a-torrent">When adding a torrent<aclass="headerlink"href="#when-adding-a-torrent"title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
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<li>
<p>For consistency with other torrents I recommend leaving this on <code>Original</code>.</p>
<p>Pre-allocated disk space for the added torrents, this limits fragmentation and also makes sure if you use a cache drive or a feeder disk that the space is available.</p>
<p><strong>Read the <code>ATTENTION</code> block below</strong></p>
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</li>
<li>
<p>If you enable this, your incomplete downloads will be placed in this directory until completed. This could be useful if you want your downloads to use a separate SSD/Feeder disk<supid="fnref:1"><aclass="footnote-ref"href="#fn:1">1</a></sup>, but this also results in extra unnecessary moves or in worse cases a slower and more I/O intensive copy + delete.</p>
<li>You set your download location in your download client</li>
<li>Your download client <strong>ONLY</strong> downloads to your download folder/location.</li>
<li>And you tell Radarr where you want your clean media library</li>
<li>Radarr imports from your download location (copy/move/hardlink) to your media folder/library</li>
<li>Plex, Emby, JellyFin or Kodi should <strong>ONLY</strong> have access to your media folder/library</li>
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<p><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/v/latest/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/><strong><strong>Your Download and Media Library should be </strong>NEVER<strong> the same locations</strong></strong><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/v/latest/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></p>
<p>Your port used for incoming connections, this is the port you opened in your router/firewall or port forwarded at your VPN provider to make sure you're connectable.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>The port you opened in your router/firewall or port forwarded at your VPN provider</code></strong></p>
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</li>
<li>
<p>This should be disabled in your router for several security reasons.</p>
<p>Here you can set your global rate limits, meaning your maximum download/upload speed used by qBittorrent. (For all torrents)</p>
<p>The best settings depends on many factors.</p>
<ul>
<li>Your ISP speed.</li>
<li>Your hardware used.</li>
<li>
<p>Bandwidth needed by other services in your home network.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>For a home connection that you use with others it's best practice to set the upload/download rate to about 70-80% of your maximum upload/download speed.</code></strong></p>
<p>When enabled, it basically does the same as above, but with the option to setup a schedule.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>Limit your upload/download rate during daytime when you make most use of it, and unlimited it during nighttime when no one is using the connection.</li>
<li>
<p>If you have an internet connection that's limited during specific hours (unlimited bandwidth during the night, but limited during the day)</p>
<p>These settings are mainly used for public trackers (and should be enabled for them) and not for private trackers, decent private trackers use a private flag where they ignore these settings.</p>
<p>Recommended setting <code>Allow encryption</code> rather than enforcing it allows more peers to connect and is recommended on underpowered systems as it will allow for lower overhead.</p>
<p>Anonymous mode hides clients (qBittorrent) fingerprint from the peer-ID, sets the ‘User-Agent’ to Null and it doesn’t share your IP-address directly with trackers (though peers will still see your IP address). If using private trackers, it's recommended to <code>disable</code> this. I also got reports from people who are using this that they had worse speeds.</p>
<p>What to do when ratio or seeding time is reached.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>Paused and Disabled</code></strong></p>
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</li>
</ol>
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<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>Personally, I recommend using the seeding goals in your Starr Apps indexer settings (enable advanced), or use <ahref="/Downloaders/qBittorrent/3rd-party-tools/#qbit-manage"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank">qBit Manage</a></p>
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<h3id="automatically-add-these-trackers-to-new-downloads">Automatically add these trackers to new downloads<aclass="headerlink"href="#automatically-add-these-trackers-to-new-downloads"title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3>
<p><divclass="lightgallery"><adata-sub-html="Automatically add these trackers to new downloads"href="../images/qb-options-bittorrent-automatically-add-these-trackers.png"><imgalt="Automatically add these trackers to new downloads"src="../images/qb-options-bittorrent-automatically-add-these-trackers.png"/></a></div></p>
<p><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/v/latest/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/><strong>NEVER USE THIS OPTION ON (Semi-)PRIVATE TRACKERS</strong><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/v/latest/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></p>
<pclass="admonition-title">Questions or Suggestions?</p>
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<p>If you use unRaid then you don't need this since you can make use of the default cache drive option. <aclass="footnote-backref"href="#fnref:1"title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p>
<p>The default path setup suggested by some docker developers that encourages people to use mounts like <code>/movies</code>, <code>/tv</code> and <code>/downloads</code> is very suboptimal because it makes them look like two or three file systems, even if they aren’t. It is the easiest way to get started. While easy to use, it has a major drawback. Mainly losing the ability to hardlink or instant move, resulting in a slower and more I/O intensive copy + delete is used.</p>
<p>But you're able to change this, by not using the pre-defined/recommended paths like:</p>
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