Hello,

I have a feature request. I use a USB hard drive to store my torrent data. One side effect of this is that the torrent data pre-allocation is fairly slow (I don't know why exactly, maybe its related to the 4096 NTFS block size vs whatever the pre-allocation block size is).

Anyways sometimes this means I may have a few torrents doing their data allocation at the same time. But this causes it to slow down even more due to the drive thrashing (and I suspect also increases the fragmentation of each of the files).

Perhaps a new feature to be considered of the pre-allocated data option would be to only allocate the data for one torrent at a time (or more precisely but not necessarily necessary -- one torrent per file system at a time).

I think this would help everyone out that uses this feature.

Thanks for any feedback!

Yes, this makes sense to me: a queue for allocating disk space (per file system).

By the way: I can confirm that allocating disk space on a USB 2.0 drive (also using NTFS) is very slow; just about 10MiB/s.

Two other improvements in this regard:
1. I would like to see a progress meter, just like with the "check data" feature
2. The ability to skip allocating disk space for a specific torrent. This could be provided by a "Skip" button when the first point (above) is implemented.