I've attached my unraid diagnostics if anyone experienced can take a look and figure out what is going on.

Recently my Plex started crashing every few days. When I check in my unraid.local I can see my disk 1 is not showing a temperature reading. A quick reboot resolves this and Plex works again. But now it's almost every day and sometimes I only get minutes between crashes.

But admittedly, my server is nothing short of jank. When I got into unraid about 9 months ago I had a free dell optiplex micro lying about and added in spare NVME's, and additional SSD via USB. No parity. I know these are not recommended and I am looking at buying a proper NAS and HDD's for the array. I guess I am just wondering if there is any way I can salvage the current setup or if I am going to have to splurge on a new system to get this resolved.

Thank you in advance

unraid-diagnostics-20250523-2151.zip

Edited May 23, 20251 yr by andykai

2 hours ago, andykai said:

When I check in my unraid.local I can see my disk 1 is not showing a temperature reading.

This is normal if a disk has been spun down.

@andykai Are you running the latest 7.12 or 7.x? My Plex has been doing the same thing now every couple of days and it started with the most recent 7.1 release/patches. Plex appears to be up sometimes but when trying to stream media it doesn't play. Other times the server is actually down (alerted by Plex Dash or Tautulli. My disks have spun down for years so I don't think that is it. I need to find the location of the plex log file to see why it thinks it is crashing.

10 hours ago, itimpi said:

This is normal if a disk has been spun down.

It never used to do this though. I'm not sure what has changed...

And it's an issue as I have my plex docker container on there, so if that disk goes down then Plex won't work...

Any idea on how to stop a disk spinning down?

9 hours ago, Skipdog said:

@andykai Are you running the latest 7.12 or 7.x? My Plex has been doing the same thing now every couple of days and it started with the most recent 7.1 release/patches. Plex appears to be up sometimes but when trying to stream media it doesn't play. Other times the server is actually down (alerted by Plex Dash or Tautulli. My disks have spun down for years so I don't think that is it. I need to find the location of the plex log file to see why it thinks it is crashing.

I'm running Binhex-plexpass docker (shows as Version 1.41.7.9799 within Plex). I assume this is 7.12 or whatever is the latest...

I'm running 7.1.2 and running the binhex-plex docker as well. In the last week plex hasn't crashed and i noticed i've updated the docker a couple of times. Hopefully just a fluke.

Did you review this thread for spin/up/down ?

I let my drives sleep because a few of the drives in the center of my 3U Supermicro cause a lot of heat and the spin down helps my overall temps quite a bit. I've always done this and never have had a problem. Sometimes if someone tries to access media on the drives that are spun down it will take plex a bit to start to stream.

As a side note the biggest performance i've gotten was installing a new MSI z790 board and then installing a gen4/5 NVME and making sure appdata was running from that.

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