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SOLVED: Array Disks Keep Spinning Up???


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I've set my disks to spin down when not in use since they shouldn't be being accessed very often at all; however, I've been randomly finding at least one disk and parity online.  Whenever I see them online I check active streams and open files but see nothing connecting to them. 

 

That said, I just clicked on log and see a lot of disk notifications for SMART and spin down.  I've read it's not healthy to have the disks spinning up/down more than 5 times per day and I'm way over this amount ... how do I find the cause of this?

 

Jan  2 10:02:27 unRAID emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdg
Jan  2 10:02:27 unRAID emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdc
Jan  2 10:18:58 unRAID emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdg
Jan  2 10:18:58 unRAID emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdc
Jan  2 10:44:38 unRAID emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdf
Jan  2 10:44:49 unRAID emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdc
Jan  2 10:59:39 unRAID emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdf
Jan  2 10:59:50 unRAID emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdc
Jan  2 11:02:51 unRAID emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdg
Jan  2 11:02:51 unRAID emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdc
Jan  2 11:19:23 unRAID emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdg
Jan  2 11:19:23 unRAID emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdc

 

UPDATE: I installed File Activity plugin and noticed ... 

  • Frigate was offloading files every hour for it's retention policy.  I've requested they do this once per day instead and in the meantime turned retention up to 365 days.
  • Radarr/Sonarr has scheduled tasks running more than every hour that cause the Array to spin up.  Since the developers can't trust people to manage their own media server settings, I powered these down and have switched to streaming media rather than downloading it.
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Hi, thanks for the quick reply @trurl ... attached.

 

FWIW - I installed File Activity plugin and see several movie/show files.  I'm not sure if Radarr/Sonarr tasks that run multiple times per hour, and can't be adjusted, would cause this?  I also noticed some CCTV which is probably Frigate but am not sure why it would be doing anything with a share that's set to Cache and should only be moved to the Array by mover whenever it runs.  I also notice a photo is OPEN and while I pass in /data/media to my media dockers, they do not have my photos added to their library so this is really bizzare.  I also see a few .tmp files and am not sure what that's about.

 

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