newoski Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 I understand that there is a correlation between spin up groups and potential buffering in Kodi, but beyond that I'm not sure where to go... what is are the recommended settings for spin up groups, if my goal is to avoid buffering in Kodi with 4K Remuxes? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 To avoid spinups causing buffering, you would place all drives into a single spin up group, so that when one spins up all of them do. Alternatively, you could also set the drives to never spin down. Quote Link to comment
newoski Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 5 minutes ago, Squid said: To avoid spinups causing buffering, you would place all drives into a single spin up group, so that when one spins up all of them do. Alternatively, you could also set the drives to never spin down. thanks! How does spin down delay factor in then? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Regardless of being a member of a spin up group, a drive could still spin down due to no activity, and if it has to spin back up to serve another stream you might have buffering on the original stream. Quote Link to comment
newoski Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 59 minutes ago, Squid said: Regardless of being a member of a spin up group, a drive could still spin down due to no activity, and if it has to spin back up to serve another stream you might have buffering on the original stream. So the fix is to set a longer spin delay, ya? Like 4 hours? And then how do I define my "spinup groups"? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 On 5/9/2022 at 2:12 PM, newoski said: how do I define my "spinup groups"? Main, click on each disk and enter in the text for a spin-up group for that drive (anything you want eg: put it in the movies spin up group and also put the other drives in to the same movies spin up group.) No clue (and it's not in the help text) of how to make a drive part of multiple spinup groups like the setting implies. 1 Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 You can enter multiple numbers seperated by a space, e.g. 1 2 The disk will be member of both group 1 and group 2. Hint: to test a group, spin up or spin down a disk in the GUI by clicking the ‘orb’ icon, all other disks in the same group(s) should follow Quote Link to comment
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