6.8.3 High number of writes to Boot device

[Mack_H]

Hello. I am a new user of unRAID and I am getting setup for the first time. I have been experiencing high number of writes occurring on the boot device (flash disk) about 10 every 5 seconds. Already over 4000 writes. All I am doing is pre clearing drives and have installed a few plugins.  I have checked through the plugins but cannot see any scheduled tasks or anything. Please could someone help determine what may be causing this? Thanks

Edited May 12, 2020 by Mack_H

[trurl]

I know one of the preclear plugins stores progress on flash periodically, but I don't think it is that frequent.

 

Do you actually have any assigned disks yet?

 

Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post.

[Mack_H]

Hi trurl, ok thanks its maybe that then. Please find diagnostics zip file attached. It just seems the write number is increasing a lot it is now at 8000 writes and 4700 reads, from what i have seen i don't think that is normal? Also is it normal when new hard disks are formatted and added to the array it will show 50-70gb of used storage per disk, even though there is no data on them yet?

 

Many thanks for your help.

 

Edited May 12, 2020 by trurl
delete lots of attached files that should have been a single zip

[trurl]

2 hours ago, Mack_H said:

Please find diagnostics zip file attached.

I did not find an attached zip file. I found lots of separate files attached, which I have deleted since nobody is going to go to the trouble to download each separately. They aren't even organized into the folders the diagnostics zip has.

 

The diagnostics Unraid gives you is a single zip file. If it looks like you downloaded a lot of separate files (which you can't actually do from a single click on a web page) it is because your PC and its browser is configured to automatically open zip files.

 

Find the diagnostics ZIP file where your downloads usually go, and attach that SINGLE ZIP FILE.

 

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