I am currently setting up my plex from scratch on new harddrives.
I want them to last as long as possible (and use as least electricity as possible). Since I am not using plex daily, I set the HDDs to spin down quite soon after the last use.
Unfortunately, every night at 1am (Scheduled Tasks run from 1 - 2 am) the drives wake up, plex does something, and then the drives go back to sleep.
I unchecked everything under schedules tasks.
How can I completely disable this, since it is not needed (no media is added or removed).
Even if I set the scheduled tasks to be 23 hours daily, the drives keep spinning up every few hours to do something.
If you want your HDDs in your NAS to last as long as possible, keep them spinning. It is the starting and stopping (and the resulting change in temperature) what is killing them faster.
There is a reason why the “spinup cycle” is a core parameter for estimating a drive’s remaining life time.
Yeah, that I do know of. But I would argue that it is better to spin up the drives every couple of weeks instead of having them run idle for weeks. What would you say? I am really in between those right now
That’s really a case to which Plex is rather ill-fitted.
It’d be perfect if it had some sort of “cold storage” support, where it can mark some libraries or items as “unchanged” and never tries to access and update them, unless a user is requesting it.
But as it is, it relies on all media files being accessible immediately 24/7.
