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  • people’s literal existence are now being political and sensitive

    Insert always has been meme here.

    The major difference between the 1920s or 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s or etc. and now is simply which people’s existence is being pushed as a political issue and that we’ve ceded control of the media to giant corporations who have an overriding incentive to make nobody mad ever because if they don’t, they’ll lose advertiser money because you can’t do anything without half the population disliking you.

    That, and we have allowed fascists to control the discussion for decades, rather than stomping them like they rightfully deserve.

    Twitch is very much in the wrong here, but let’s not pretend that telling people they’re not allowed to talk about one minority group or another is somehow new.


  • sudo smartctl -a /dev/yourssd

    You’re looking for the Media_Wearout_Indicator which is a percentage starting at 100% and going to 0%, with 0% being no more spare sectors available and thus “failed”. A very important note here, though, is that a 0% drive isn’t going to always result in data loss.

    Unless you have the shittiest SSD I’ve ever heard of or seen, it’ll almost certainly just go read-only and all your data will be there, you just won’t be able to write more data to the drive.

    Also you’ll probably be interested in the Total_LBAs_Written variable, which is (usually) going to be converted to gigabytes and will tell you how much data has been written to the drive.



  • As a FunFact™, you’re more likely to have the SSD controller die than the flash wear out at this point.

    Even really cheap SSDs will do hundreds and hundreds of TB written these days, and on a normal consumer workload we’re talking years and years and years and years of expected lifespan.

    Even the cheap SSDs in my home server have been fine: they’re pushing 5 years on this specific build, and about 200 TBW on the drives and they’re still claiming 90% life left.

    At that rate, I’ll be dead well before those drives fail, lol.





  • I went and whacked the scan library button on a 30tb library collection and it didn’t read all that much data (looks like under 100gb) and seemed to be pretty quick - maybe 45 seconds. Local drives and all that, so the speed of the scan doesn’t matter as much as the relatively small amount of data. If all you had was 1tb of media, I’d expect it to just be a couple of gigabytes, not huge amounts of data.

    I’d probably double-check that however you’ve mounted the WebDAV share is supporting partial reads, since that really feels to me like the first place that something could be wrong that would cause excessive amounts of file transfers.


  • I mean, WebDAV is basically just HTTP.

    Accessing a file over WebDAV will result in the file being downloaded, so it makes sense that trying to scan terrabytes of files will result in terrabytes of downloads.

    You probably want to use nfs/smb instead, since that’s more designed for random-access type situations, though you’d STILL end up pulling all the data down since iirc jellyfin scans the entire file so you’d still be in the situation of having to download all the data even there.





  • Maybe?

    It depends on if the added functions are software-based, or if there’s some hardware funkery going on.

    Given it’s a consumer product, I’d wager it’s just a drive in an enclosure that does all their mirroring/backups/encryption stuff in software, but their marketing material doesn’t seem to say one way or the other.

    Google indicates older versions can be reformatted, so I’d bet that’s still true.

    If I’m wrong it’s not my fault, etc.