October 26, 201213 yr I can usually keep my fans set pretty low and my temps stay around 30, maybe 34 during parity checks. I installed an old Samsung SATA I 40GB drive as cache(only using for plugins) and I had to turn the fans all the way up just to keep it at 40. In its location it does recieve less air flow over the top, but the same across the bottom. Do older drives tend to run warmer? Is 40 safe? If it turn my fans down it will go to 42-43, would that still be safe? While its obviously a cheap drive I don't want to waste it. Not to mention lose all my plugin data.
October 26, 201213 yr Yes older drives appear to run hotter for me. Which would make sense to me. Just like CPUs - heat can kill them so HDD makers would want to make improvement like the CPU makers. As long as your drive is in the low 40s I wouldn't worry. I would want a backup for it because of the drives age more than a temp in the low 40s. I have some drives that are still running that got to 60 during a parity check for several hours. Maybe almost the whole parity check time wise. I don't know when the cooling fan died. I don't really trust them anymore but I have no choice but to use them as I slowly replace them as funds permit.
October 26, 201213 yr Author Seeing as its a cache drive, but set up to only store plugins, if I copied the files on it to a location on a seperate system would that be sufficient back up? Would it save my plugin settings? IE set up for sabnzbd and sickbeard? I assume as I add shows I would want to update the back up file?
October 26, 201213 yr Seeing as its a cache drive, but set up to only store plugins, if I copied the files on it to a location on a seperate system would that be sufficient back up? Would it save my plugin settings? IE set up for sabnzbd and sickbeard? I assume as I add shows I would want to update the back up file? I would back up the files to your array or elsewhere periodically. I don't use sabnzbd and sickbeard so I can't tell you if they update files in their install folder or not. But if they don't then you may only need to backup once. I wouldn't think that you would have to worry if a log file is the only file to be updated. By backup I was thinking of another drive on hand that you could swap in when your existing drive dies. But your idea of a backup of the files elsewhere is a good one. As to whether you can just copy them back to a new drive and be up and running I will have to let someone else that uses your apps advise.
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