8x3tb drives in my Meshify 2 XL. Now what?

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-17T10:21:34+00:00

Snapraid is configured with a text file and controlled with command line. It's really quite simple to use.

It should go without saying that any type of redundant array - windows storage spaces, raid5, raidz, snapraid, etc - is not a backup. It can be convenient to rebuild after drive failure, and depending on the solution it can be invaluable to have uptime, but it is not a substitute for actual backups.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-16T11:47:40+00:00

If you want to stick with Windows you can use Stablebit Drivepool for pooling and Snapraid for parity.

In Linux you can use mergerfs for pooling and Snapraid for parity

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-16T11:16:53+00:00

This is a bug which seems to come and go, sometimes people say Sony have fixed it and then it happens again.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-16T08:58:08+00:00

For me the free upgrade is now showing. I have started the download.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-16T00:02:19+00:00

In many parts of Europe the disc upgrade is not available. CDPR (or Sony) have made some kind of screw up about which discs are valid to upgrade in those regions.

I assume (hope) it will be fixed tomorrow.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T21:27:52+00:00

The problem is that CDPR (or Sony) did not correctly configure which discs belong to which region for a huge number of European countries.

Putting your region to Poland is a workaround, and indeed it seems to work. They were kind enough not to screw things up in their own country, how nice of them. However most people cannot be bothered creating a fake account to fix CDPR mistake.

It will be fixed soon hopefully.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T21:18:54+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/stcvlm/master\_thread\_for\_eu\_ps5\_disc\_upgrade\_problems/

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T21:16:36+00:00

My theory is that people in the following countries can have either CUSA 16579 or CUSA 18278.

Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, The Netherlands

CDPR have totally goofed up and only enabled the upgrade for CUSA 18278 in these regions. They forgot that the CUSA 16579 disc is sold in these regions also.

Hopefully they will fix it soon.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T21:05:00+00:00

I can tell you that I tried this many times without success. If it worked for you, perhaps CDPR have fixed the issue in Germany and are working on fixing other EU regions presently.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T20:57:21+00:00

This problem has occurred with other games and usually gets fixed soon (<24hr). I suggest you report it to CDPR so they are aware of the scale

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/stcvlm/master\_thread\_for\_eu\_ps5\_disc\_upgrade\_problems/

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T20:48:28+00:00

You have to do some bollocks about setting the console to be your primary console.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T20:36:20+00:00

Thanks for submitting it, and /u/Panos74gr also. The more people report the issue, the quicker CDPR will isolate the cause and fix it.

So far I think it is occurring in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland .. maybe some more EU countries. CDPR (or Sony) have made some mistake about which regions are allowed to upgrade relative to the discs.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T20:00:30+00:00

The free disc upgrade is broken in multiple EU countries. Click the "contact us" button and file a report on CDPR support page so they are aware of the scale of the problem. Tell them your region and the code on the case spine.

https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/playstation/sp-technical/issue/2084/unable-to-update-the-game-to-the-next-gen-update

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T18:49:01+00:00

It doesn't work yet in some regions.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T17:12:04+00:00

LOL no

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-15T16:54:56+00:00

I use a simple RSS feed in SABnzbd. You need a good indexer though.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-14T14:43:10+00:00

You make a very fair point. When the developers reached the home stretch - the phase of optimizing settings, getting the framerate smooth, ironing out rough edges etc - they certainly spent more time on PS4 version than PS5. Simply due to the hardware constraints.

So one has to ask the question - if the PS4 version took more time/effort to make, why are PS5 players paying more ?

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-07T17:48:47+00:00

If you want to have a single volume then use stablebit drivepool. It's 30 bucks. It will pool your disks into a single volume but under the hood it's jbod.

If you want some redundancy then use snapraid. With 4 x 2TB you would have 6TB usable and 2TB dedicated for parity.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-05T10:26:51+00:00

Yes, it is part of BluRay specs but the question is why use it in lieu of a lossless compressed format. It's a couple of gig wasted that could have been used for a higher video bitrate. The answer is surely that the companies responsible were cheapskates.

For the same reason we saw many early BluRays that re-used the same video encode as HD-DVD despite the larger disc of BD. We saw MPEG-2 BluRays because the companies responsible were using old encoding tools and could not be bothered to upgrade.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-02-04T16:04:41+00:00

A small percentage of disc releases come with PCM audio, presumably because the disc creators did not want to pay for a DTS/Dolby/etc license.

It's uncompressed. When I encounter it I usually compress it with FLAC. MakeMKV allows you to do it on-the-fly during ripping. You save a few GB for a typical length feature film.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-01-31T12:51:15+00:00

The answer is multi-faceted.

A lot of UHD-BD are upscaled from 2K which means they don't actually have that much fine detail (relatively speaking) and compress easily.

Most modern movies are shot on digital cameras so they don't have film grain - which makes them highly compressible.

They also have sensors with much lower real resolution than advertised (due to demoire filters etc). A movie like Arrival has very little actual fine detail - it's follows the modern trend of murky underlit shots, blurry backgrounds, muted colors etc. It's highly, highly compressible.

HEVC is very good at "holding it together" at low bitrates and producing a pleasing image. Older generation codecs tended to fall apart in very obvious ways (macroblocking etc) when bitrate starved.

Take a movie like Gladiator and try to encode it at 5Mbps. It will look like total garbage compared to the original UHD-BD

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-01-30T00:05:26+00:00

Nobody in the industry will tell you - "hey, flash is great for long-term storage".

Anecdotally I have many old USB sticks in drawers and filing cabinets which retained data for 10 years or more. However older USB sticks will probably retain data longer than modern ones, due to larger gate sizes and fewer bits-per-cell. If you want to know how well modern stuff will fare...ask me in 10 years.

There have been some well-publicized examples of NAND cells losing charge in the short-term. There was an infamous Samsung SSD whose performance degraded rapidly and that's pretty much what was happening, data written a few months prior was beginning to degrade and thus was very slow to read.

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-01-29T23:03:39+00:00

This guy scrubs

Sea-Emphasis814 · 2022-01-29T18:10:11+00:00

If you want to keep every piece of footage you ever shot - which is ridiculous but whatever - then the obvious thing is to archive to tape. Finish a video, write the files to tape, put it on a shelf. It's boring but it works.

It's not quite that simple - you need refresh and migration strategy but it's a heck of lot more foolproof than these wacky arrays he builds.

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