The good news: Highwinds retention has been bumped up, now exactly matches Astraweb.
The bad news: Highwinds completion is still piss-poor!
Here's a sample (500 day) file from Highwinds (barely par-fixable) using NZB Download Checker:
Same file on Astraweb (perfect completion):
This was the first file I downloaded in several weeks. After my last report on Highwinds dismal retention, I had thought that Highwinds would have improved its completion by now. (*I thought wrong*.) Although it was salvageable, this file on Highwinds was only 2 par blocks away from being unrecoverable! Is it just my bad luck, or is this sort of piss-poor retention typical for Highwinds these days?
Since Astraweb and Highwinds both started spooling retention at about the same time back in 2008, Highwinds has always lagged Astraweb's retention by a month or more. I would like to know where this extra retention (posts made 15August2008 - 15Sep2008) came from -- retention that Highwinds has never had for the past 3 years. It seems quite a "coincidence" that Highwinds and Astraweb now have identical retention. Unless maybe Highwinds bought --or stole-- the missing volumes from Astraweb's server?
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Interestingly, on Highwinds this 969-day-old post - at the very edge of retention range - has better completion than the above 500-day post.
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