If the Synology Package Center does this then it doesn’t matter for me (maybe it doesn’t read/write from/to the disk for its check?). When I stop the Plex container my NAS is extremely quiet (aside from maybe a disk access every few minutes - which is absolutely no problem compared to a disk access every 5 seconds). And that’s even with 3 other Docker images running. Only the Plex image causes the constant disk access.
I have as much noise mitigation as possible for my NAS. It is inside a closet (not good for temperature, I know - there is a small ventilation opening). It even stands on foam material so that the noise doesn’t expand to the floor or closet sides.
To be honest I just had the bad luck to buy a loud disk (a Seagate IronWolf). I also run a NAS at my parent’s place with a WD Red and it’s way quieter.
How could a shell script help in my case?
I understand that my reason for wanting the change is not important for the Plex team. But this issue with Plex Docker constant disk access is widespread and different people have different reasons why it’s bad. Some examples:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-docker-unraid-is-constantly-writing-to-its-docker-home-library/419895
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/bece3f/official_plex_docker_on_unraid_server_is/
https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/gw4k6x/plex_help_it_keeps_writing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/beaavt/plex_docker_is_constantly_writing_to_my_cache_ssd/
https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/ea85gc/high_disk_writes_with_official_plex_docker_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/j7vw4z/constantly_writing_to_ssd_cache_drive_through/
https://forums.unraid.net/bug-reports/stable-releases/683-unnecessary-overwriting-of-json-files-in-dockerimg-every-5-seconds-r1079/
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/84858-loop2-dockerimg-writing-a-lot-to-the-cache/
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/92444-docker-containers-keeps-writing-to-hostconfigjson-and-configv2json/
