hi, i have some power hungry 3.5" drives in a large RAID5 set holding most of the content I do not watch very often, mostly blue ray backups and previous seasons of series. I also have a small 4x2.5" RAID5 drive set that I use for live content. Setting the update interval to 24h works like a…

Have you tried the following settings in PMS (library>advanced)? Disable: "Update my library periodically" Enable: "Update my library automatically" and "Run a partial scan when changes are detected" In addition you might want to trigger a refresh manually. I hope this helps

Nope, I haven't. Will change settings accordingly and report back in this thread. Thanks for the suggestion !

Doesn't look good but want to double check my findings. Seems like activating the update automatically feature only makes things worse. Disks spin up every hour or more. Reverting to the daily update interval did not give the expected results either. In fact, it did not make any difference. Not kn…

OK. Done testing :-) Automatic update is not the answer for my problem. Best solution is disabling updates to the library. Now, the drives only spin up at 3am for 10 mins (why?) and that's it. Is there any way to "tag" a library as online, near line or offline. That way, the online content is stil…

[Feature request] Disable library update for "archived" sections

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[Feature request] Disable library update for "archived" sections

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