My media server kept freezing and crashing Kubernetes pods. After some digging, I realised the bottleneck was the old spinning HDD. I cloned the system to an SSD, swapped the drives, and the node is now stable and fast. In this post, I talk about how I did it with minimal downtime.

https://vuyisile.com/from-hdd-to-ssd-how-i-fixed-an-i-o-bottleneck-in-a-kubernetes-node/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social