My cache drive never seems to get any rest.  It is always showing as spun up and is likely due to one of the plugins I am using:

 

simpleFeatures, Sickbeard, Sabnzbd+, CouchPotato, Plex, and uTorrent Server.

 

Though I leave utserver disabled unless I need it for a torrent via sceneaccess.

 

Et' tu?

Indeed if you have any plugin like Sickbeard, Sabnzbd+, CouchPotato, Plex, and uTorrent Server that is enabled then ofcourse the cache drive will not spindown.

 

I have have all the plugins installed and running you listed except simpleFeatures, Plex, and uTorrent Server. For all the applications, I have modifierd the settings for the log file to be written to a /tmp/logs directory. Since these applications generate quite some background activity and log reports, it keeps your cache drive from spinning down. I have also set the applications to search once a day.

 

With these settings my cache drive spins down.

Does it spin down - No. Do I care - No.

 

With those plugins I would be surprised if I ever saw my cache drive spun down.

And as for directing logs to /tmp - is it good idea, considering amount of writes to flash drive?

/tmp is not on the flash drive, but on the ramdrive. so all those logs will be written to ram and will be lost on reboot.

if you've got enough ram, you will be fine. (i'd say, at least 2GB ram. i wouldn't want to fill the ramdisk with trash and run out of free ram)

Benni-chan is spot on. My server has 4GB ram and I haven't rebooted in about 3 months now. With a sufficient amount of ram, it could be a solution. Don't forget to chmod 777 the logs dir, otherwise the applications will not be able to write to it. Would you want to access the logs, you'd have to telnet in the server and copy the logs directory on your flash or cache drive.

That's good to know! I'll try it out once I upgrade ram (1GB at the moment, not enough for python alone)