Hello All,

 

Im using the latest version 5.11 of unRaid.... have 2x3TB Storage 1x3TB Parity and a 500GB Cache drive.

 

Have apps installed (SB/CP/SAB/AirVideo/SubSonic)

 

Ive noticed that my Cache drive never spins down automatically.  Im assuming that its because of the apps i have running....but was curious if anyone else ahs this probelm and what ppl have done to resolve it.

 

Thanks!

Try going into the cache drive from the main tab and selecting a spindown time manually.  I had it set to default and it never spun down either.  Most likely a bug that'll eventually be fixed.

I used to run subsonic and yes it would keep the cache disk from spinning down.

Depending on how often SB is doing checks and what your spindown timer is set to, the drive will never spin down.  I.E.  Spindown is set to 1hour and SB checks for releases every hour, the drive won't spin down.  SB logs its connection attempts AFAIK.

Sureguy,  your logic is what I thought, and unless I skipped something, I have everything set to check every 1440 minutes (1 day).  And subsonic is set to scan library every 7 days....Guess Ill have to go back and check them all and also take the recomendation to set the spin down manually to a lower limit.

 

Have a feeling I have something in SAB set to scan too frequently.

SAB checking a watched directory could also cause it to not spin down.

Couchpotato constantly (I believe every 60 minutes?) downloads new data from your indexers and thus has to update database files, those database files are stored on your cache drive and thus doesn't spin down. Same with sickbeard, although, I believe that does it every 10 minutes, so, even more writing; sabnzbd also does it, just, not so much.

SAB checking a watched directory could also cause it to not spin down.

 

Assuming you use the "cachedir" script, I don't believe this will happen, although, my understanding of linux isn't the greatest, even for the file system caching part.