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   moshibar@fedi.catboy.agency's status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 23:04:47 JST moshibar

   Does anyone have a recommendation for good affordable high quality hard drives? or have SSD' become cheap enough to be worth it for mass archival
   
   RE: https://fedi.catboy.agency/notes/9r7puzaacp9600od

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 23:04:45 JST iced depresso

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     @moshibar this sounds really weird. is it an archival drive and you're filling up the write cache?
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 23:27:54 JST iced depresso

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     @moshibar huh. dunno then. check SMART and see if the drive is dying. they can slow down when they start having to skip too many dead sectors.
     
     usually if writing seems very fast for a bit and slows down shortly after, that's the write cache filling up. it makes it look like file transfers re fast because its just putting it in RAM and the disk hasn't actually saved anything. once that fills up you see the "true" write speed and it all slows down. but it shouldn't lock up the computer at all--it'll just be slow, usually some fixed speed.
     
     you can also try evacuating the disk and reformatting it but that will only matter if there is filesystem corruption.
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     moshibar@fedi.catboy.agency's status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 23:27:55 JST moshibar

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     @icedquinn@blob.cat uhhhhhh I have no idea :floofWoozy: it's a Toshiba N300 NAS drive

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 11:12:08 JST iced depresso

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     @moshibar i haven't had this specific problem with btrfs before so idk
     
     you could try a btrfs scrub, that will check that all the files are kino?
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     moshibar@fedi.catboy.agency's status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 11:12:09 JST moshibar

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     @icedquinn@blob.cat I see, it's using btrfs if that means anything