Sonarr and HD standby / spin down

[Jimboy]

Sonarr version (exact version): 2.0.0.3953
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows): 4.2.3 (Stable 4.2.3.4/832de4b Wed Mar 16 13:38:11 UTC 2016)
OS: Debian wheezy

Hello everyone,

I’m very new to Sonarr and love it so far. The interface is just beautiful.

I’m running it on a NAS system which is running Debian wheezy. As I don’t use Sonarr for too many shows, it’s not downloading most of the time. HD spin down / standby is important to me as it saves me energy and, more importantly, keeps the NAS colder and by that, much quieter. As soon as the drives are spinning, they get warmer which, on the other hand, turns the NAS’ fan faster.

I’ve already read on these forums that the Health Check (6h) and disk scan (12h) will wake up all drives in the system. Is that correct? If it is: Why not make these values a little customizable? I, for example, will never touch the series file system on my own. Only Sonarr is allowed to do that. So there shouldn’t be a need for scans.

I guess the downloader scan (1m) will not keep any drive from sleeping, because it will only check sabnzbd if Sonarr send something there, right?

[Mirx_NL]

First thing would be to map the sonarr config folder and log files to an usb drive. Otherwise every rss sync (15 minutes) would write a log entry and cause disk activity anyways.

No idea if that would be sufficiant though.

[Jimboy]

Thanks for your reply. Sonarr is already running on a flash drive, as is the whole OS. Only the download and media folders are HDDs.