Hi!

 

I am rocking Unraid 7 and so far it's great. I am running two pools, zfs only. One Cache (two names mirrored) and an raidz1 with 3 hdds.

I come to notice, when I stream via infuse, the hdds spin down although I am still watching.

 

So let's say an episode is about an hour, hdd spin down is set to default, the intelligent caching of zfs puts the file into ram, infuse gets the file and with no other activity, hdds spin down within the length of the episode, so that when you are about to watch the next episode (which is not in the ram cache), the spin up takes so much time, that infuse runs into a timeout and I've got to trigger the playback twice.

 

Two possible solutions so far:

- Increase timeout for spin down, which should then be at least the length of a feature film, otherwise you run into the same problem there

- a script that check the log of Jellyfin for user activity and prevent spin down. 

 

Both not really ideal and I did not yet tested the second one.

 

Does anybody experience the same problem?

Are there other solutions?

Is there something planned on the Unraid side to tackle this?

 

Would love to hear your thoughts!

 

Cheers

Dan

I htink jelly fin is putting the movie in ram. thus no activty thus no spin down.

You can adjust the spindown already with setting > disk settings:

 

 

I actually think it's infuse that pulls most of the content into the RAM/Flash Storage on the AppleTV.

 

If you watched it via the Plex app you probably won't see the same behavior.

 

Edit: When starting a film, watch the network graphs on unraid's dashboard, you will see a large portion get sent to the appletv. Mine will saturate the entire 1Gig bandwidth. Plex does not do this.

Edited December 15, 20241 yr by MowMdown