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fondy
Feb 14, 2018Tutor
Constant disc activity
Hi I have a Readynas 524 with 3 x WD 8TB discs and firmware 6.9.2 There is constant disc activity I use only the Plex app, and I have turned on File search, but not Antivirus Is it th...
- Feb 16, 2018
Inserting the 4th disc and syncing was finished today.
File search is not indexing, it says Enabled.
Plec is finished gathering metadata
It seems that there is not abnormal disc activity anymore
I close the case :)
Paal
StephenB
Feb 14, 2018Guru - Experienced User
If you just enabled file search, then it does need to take some time to build up its index.
Plex also will generate constant disk activity when it is building its media library (and that continues while it is gathering metadata from the internet).
But once those processes complete, they shouldn't be generating constant disk activity.
Have you enabled disk spindown on your NAS?
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