I just set up lidarr with all artists I like listening to and tell it to download everything they’ve made. That’s how I have about 700gb of flac files

I had some fun issue with inconsistent speeds a while back so I set up a docker container to periodically run a speed test and show that on a web gui. After about a month I stopped at ~200tb of network traffic both ways, not because I got a warning, but because I scared my isp shitless with statistics clearly illustrating them that they’re not delivering the service I pay for.

I had a fun little issue a while back where my isp replaced our fiber modem to one that didn’t allow for port forwarding. The settings were missing but when I set up dmz host on that to allow our equipment to work again, I noticed it was behind some nat in their system. I found out I could call them to get functionality restored for a fee, but instead I plugged in the old box and still keep an external ip with port forwarding enabled and no nat. To be honest the old one has been a lot less stubborn as it doesn’t drop every 10th packet on the network. I switched back about 6 months ago, and I’ve not had any issues, so we’ll see when they call demanding me to plug in the new one. Their explanation for switching systems was that their old one wasn’t powerful enough for gigabit speeds, even though both have interfaces for gigabit sfp. After some testing, the old one was more capable and stable at those speeds. I assume they wanted to switch systems due to some licensing thing, or to get more money from the .5% of people who care about these features.

I’ve reflowed a raspberry pi 0w with a camping stove and a thermometer. As long as there aren’t any components on the other side of the pcb, it might work.
Edit: here’s an old photo. Thing still works, many months later

If you run ls, does the file appear in the list?

Sorry for bumping this, but why do you have such a big difference in upload and download speeds? Here in Norway the difference is 1-2 mbps. Why 900mbps?

Hmmm interesting.
I guess you could try to install hwinfo, and check the drive health for that nvme drive. Also check if there are any other errors reported there.
You could also try to boot your pc in a live install of Ubuntu, or windows2go, and check if the weird drive activity persists.
And if it continues, I might suggest resetting your bios. I’ve heard these kinds of issues can occur with sata drives, but it might also happen with nvme.
Do note that before you reset the bios, you should set your current settings as a bios profile, so you could revert back to it if anything goes wrong.
If nothing works, I guess check what other users recommend, and if that doesn’t work, try to get it replaced under warranty.
As always good luck!

I had a similar issue on my pc with a 128gb samsung ssd. It would spike to 100% while doing nothing, and the pc would slow down to a crawl. I was able to temporarily fix the issue by deleting some files, because the drive was almost 100% filled up.
what eventually fixed the issue was a complete reformat of windows.
Some Microsoft reps told me it was some acpi error, and that turning off drive specific power management in control panel would fix it. I tried it, and it did work until I rebooted the pc.
anyways, if you’re facing some unexplainable problem with windows, I suggest you check out event viewer. Note down the date/time when the problem occurs, and try to find it in event viewer. If it’s a program thats not related to windows, check if it’s a virus / unused program and try to remove it.
If it’s related to windows, take as many screenshots and write a post on Microsofts own forum. The reps might be able to help you fix it.
Good luck!

i have corsair vengeance rgb ram, so i’m afraid there will be clearance issues

Yes