Suggestion

When installing qBittorrent you can choose where to locate the application. Within qBitorrent options you can choose folders for the storage of torrents and the location of active downloads, completed downloads etc etc.

One thing you might not expect is that regardless of these options, the ACTUAL torrent files which see constant WRITE activity are located at
"C:\User\username\AppData\Local\qBittorrent"

Try moving or renaming that folder and see what happens.... Your torrents will all disappear.

The torrents themselves are located in the sneakily named subfolder BT_Backup. That folder sees continuous write activity.

Background:
I built my system about 5 years ago. In all that time I have been precious about what gets to perform WRITE operations on my NVMe system drive. Until about 1 year ago the remaining life of my C: NVMe drive was 98%

About year ago I switched from uTorrent to qBittorrent. Since then I have actually been even more restrictive about Windows updates and writes to the drive, but the remaining life has plummeted from 98% to 92% remaining life within a year. I was scratching my head for ages wondering what was eating up the remaining life of my drive. Literally the only thing I can point a finger at to blame is the constant pounding by qBittorrent. Something I was completely unaware of.

Solution:
The files which are located in:
"C:\User\username\AppData\Local\qBittorrent"
and especially
"C:\User\username\AppData\Local\qBittorrent\BT_Backup"
need a settings option to specify where they are to be located.

I have a friend who experienced the exact same phenomenon to the exact same degree and never made the connection till I mentioned it earlier today and suddenly it all made sense to him.

The current location of these folders/files is detrimental to SSD/NVMe drives and is literally battering the life out of them.

For the time being I have relocated the entire "C:\User\username\AppData\Local\qBittorrent" onto another drive and left a symbolic junction in its place so qBitorrent doesn't know the difference, but I consider this a bodge/Jerry-rigging a make-do workaround to a problem which is affecting a lot more people than are aware of it.

There is no absolute need for these folders and files to be located in a hardcoded location on the system drive, it is likely just that no-one realised the consequences of doing so.

This does relate to Issue: #18963 which has disappeared from notice and which doesn't emphasise the gravity of the problem:

Basically qBittorrent is killing SSDs.

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