2025-01-25

You may have noticed slowdowns and/or buffering or maybe complete lack of service over the last few days. Sorry about this. I'm currently experiencing serious technical difficulties. Due to this, the library is down for now. --> Technical explanation & question: I bought a new drive, to deal with the lack of storage, for which I had to rebuild the array. The drive turned out to be dead/dying, so I had to return it and swap in my cold spare to prevent data loss. Turns out my cold spare is an unsuitable kind of drive (SMR instead of CMR) and is constantly running at 100% usage. This means the slowdowns/independability of the services will remain until I am able to get a new drive, which I currently can't really afford. If you have a spare drive (512e, CMR, and a minimum of 4TB) which you would be willing to part with for a fair price/trade, please let me know.