Super957 23 Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) I have on my NAS QNAP TS-451D2 ... 4 hdd 3,5": 2 WD red plus and 2 Toshiba Enterprise all 14TB each (all disk are compatibility with QNAP) No problem with hdd in general, but when some client see movies on my server, the hdd are constantly making a background noise because of the "work" they are doing. This is normal or one of two models WD Rd Plus or .Toshiba Enterprise.. are noisy of them ?? Thank Hispa Hd.zip Edited December 4, 2022 by Super957 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37092 Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Hi, well there is going to be disk activity with those streams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super957 23 Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 On 12/4/2022 at 6:45 PM, Luke said: Hi, well there is going to be disk activity with those streams. Ok thanks, I understand but I ask who on a NAS with 4 large capacity disks (My qnap has 4 bay with 4x14TB), while the emby server is active and various clients are connected, is it normal for the disks to make enough noise? Thank Hispa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37092 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Do you store images in the media folders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super957 23 Posted December 16, 2022 Author Share Posted December 16, 2022 7 hours ago, Luke said: Le immagini vengono memorizzate nelle cartelle multimediali? I think you're talking about the images created by Emby for each film? if so yes eg.. in folder Movie there are all movies and all files (movie, nfo etc..) created by Emby. But I think this is so default or not? Hispa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4283 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) This is simply because mechanical HDD's are not well suited to writing 100/1000's of small 'streaming' type files - and the heads will 'chatter' as a result. It is much better if you use an SSD as a cache (if the NAS has this capability..) - and point emby to use that as the 'temporary' area - then it should be silent apart from the initial seek and maybe image reading. Another factor outside of direct emby control is the fragmentation / file distribution on the NAS - if the file is spread over multiple disks and is fragmented (ie some on the inner part of the disk platters, some on the outer edges of the platter - or on different platters if RAID etc then the head will need to seek - making noise. If the file is contiguous (ie one, lump) then the heads do not need to move as much - thus it's silent. Look at 'HDD Acoustic management' for some more background - this isn't an emby problem per say - but it can be easily resolved using the above caching solutions. Edited December 17, 2022 by rbjtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super957 23 Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 I solved by changing HDD... I had 2 WD Red Plus and 2 Toshiba MG07ACA, all 14 TB. I suspected they were the Toshiba even reading here and there on the web... So replaced the 2 Toshiba with 2 more WD Red plus and noise gone Hispa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eigeplackter 75 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 12/17/2022 at 5:43 PM, rbjtech said: It is much better if you use an SSD as a cache (if the NAS has this capability..) - and point emby to use that as the 'temporary' area - then it should be silent apart from the initial seek and maybe image reading. Could you elaborate where to find this setting within emby server ? I'd be really interested as I got a 400GB SSD Cache in my Synology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3305 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 2 hours ago, Eigeplackter said: Could you elaborate where to find this setting within emby server ? I'd be really interested as I got a 400GB SSD Cache in my Synology. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37092 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Hi, has this helped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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