Constant Disk Activity -

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    Hi Community.

    I'm having quite an issue with my generic libreELEC setup, using an i3 gigabyte brix with several external hdds attached.

    A few weeks ago two of them failed shortly after another, and the majority of my media library died with them.

    Monitoring the disk usage, i found that the attached hdd's are constantly in use, with writes of 20 to 50 KB/s, even when I stop the kodi process.

    The disk usage drops when I stop the (idle) Plex container.

    Since i am running the rig 24/7, i was wondering whether there are any power-management options available?

    Thanks for your help!

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    Quote from embyplex

    The disk usage drops when I stop the (idle) Plex container.

    There are hdparm options in Linux, but if the Plex container remains that that active, I don't see hdparm as a solution.

    Kodi itself only checks on HDD's during a skin refresh or actual library maintenance. During idle, the HDDs should be able to go sleep, unless there are more processes going on in the background.

    Hi Klujum,

    Thanks for your comment.

    Killing the Plex container ended the disk writes, but I also have all of PMSs auto update functions enabled

    Yet, the external disks (2,5", USB powered) keep spinning with flashing diodes even after I completely shutdown the device.

    Tonight i'm going to have a look at the BIOS options and maybe try a different PSU.