A new home for every file
Every film, show and audiobook was copied to a pool of NVMe drives and checked before the old disks were retired. The server was offline for the hour it took.
The library moved to faster storage
Sunday's maintenance moved the whole library to a new NVMe pool. Playback starts faster, and transcodes stop queuing.
What changed
What you should notice
Two things get quicker
- Playback starts faster, most of all when you skip ahead in a long film.
- Transcodes no longer queue behind each other when several people are watching at once.
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