karun8 0 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 How is the HDD Hibernation with Emby on a Synology NAS vs Plex? Im thinking of changing to Emby as Plex Server prevents the hard drives from Hibernating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythodeia 2 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 hey karun8 check these for starters https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/54274-ds1511-constant-disk-activity-dlna-issue/?view=findpost&p=883382&hl=hibernation https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/81125-synology-hibernation/?hl=hibernation https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/72286-synology-nas-not-hibernating/?hl=hibernation https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/71089-hibernate-problems/?view=findpost&p=713352&hl=hibernation https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/70737-synology-keeps-waking-up/?hl=hibernation Several people had issues with hybernation. Some have found solutions by disabling some plugins. I think that people said that emby logs were causing the server to wake up. However i read somewhere that NAS drives are better off working 24/7 than hybernating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karun8 0 Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 Sounds better than Plex at least which connects constantly to the internet and write to the log every one minute. Im not sure where people get that they are better off working 24/7. They are designed to run 24/7 but doesnt mean they have to be. For a home nas HDD hibernation is better as its not used most of the day, since the power consumption is reduced and the wear on the disc from it spinning constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37094 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I think that people said that emby logs were causing the server to wake up. If you have debug logging on then yes, and this is mentioned when enabling it. With debug logging off, the log files alone shouldn't cause that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4283 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) Sounds better than Plex at least which connects constantly to the internet and write to the log every one minute. Im not sure where people get that they are better off working 24/7. They are designed to run 24/7 but doesnt mean they have to be. For a home nas HDD hibernation is better as its not used most of the day, since the power consumption is reduced and the wear on the disc from it spinning constantly. The 'stress' on any physical HDD is caused when it starts - both the thermal expansion (it getting hot/cold) and the power to start spinning the disk platters. If you are constantly stop/starting - then you will rapidly reduce the life/reliability of the disk vs keeping it spinning 24x7. Disks have fluid bearings, meaning they never wear out. I have had drives run 24x7 for literally 8+ years solid - there are still zero issues with these drives but they were replaced as capacity per HDD in that period of time has obviously increased significantly !. (SMART will tell you powered on hours of any drive ..) If you do want to power down HDD's, then I would say do it after maybe 4+ hours, don't power down after 15 minutes or something like that as your drive will not last long. Edited May 28, 2020 by rbjtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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