Hi I regularly suffer timeouts when waiting for my ZFS pool to come up. For performance reasons all the cache/database is stored on the SSD, this means a user can browse the library and only when they go to play a video will the pool start to spin-up. It would be fantastic that if as soon as s…

That would be a specific to you feature, and not something Plex itself would do, I think. You could handle this through some sort of script or something. When Plex gets a request, execute this script to spin up the drives, in prep for having to use them. I'm not sure how exactly you could do this…

Additionally, some drives firmware will let you turn "spin-down" features off. You might try a search on your drive mfg's site.

Hi I regularly suffer timeouts when waiting for my ZFS pool to come up. For performance reasons all the cache/database is stored on the SSD, this means a user can browse the library and only when they go to play a video will the pool start to spin-up. It would be fantastic that if as soon as so…

It's really a specific to you request. I would like to request for the opposit. I have 7 HDDs in my Home Server. I really like browsing the mediathek without spinning up the HDDs. When I look up the specific information for one movie, episode, ... the HHD, the item is stored on, is spinning up and …

I'd support this request. I don't have this problem anymore since I upgraded my NAS, but there are many consumer-grade NAS that do sequential spin-up. The power adapters don't give enough power to power up all drives at the same time, so it does them one by one.

I would apose it. If you need this, you need to come up with a way for your server to respond, or better yet, just let them spin 24/7 that will solve your issue. I dont wont my drives spun up unless I am using the server.

Perhaps a request for an advanced option in PMS that executes an optional custom script/command on search/browse would be the best way to handle this? Probably not something I would use, but I could see it being a handy hook for some.

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