Emby making hard drive buzz/grind at times

[JXL2112 7]

Is Emby too intense for older style hard drives? It seems to grind/buzz the hard drive at certain times like loading the program or just loading a video.

 

I'm worry it might wear out my hard drive. No other program seems to push the hard drive to this extreme.

 

 

PS: It's a WD 4TB Black Edition drive.

[Jdiesel 1431]

Sounds like your hard drive is beginning to fail. I'd back up everything asap.

[Luke 42086]

Can we look at the activity that is occurring during this time? Please attach the emby server log. you can learn how to do that here:

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/739-how-to-report-a-problem/

 

Thanks.

[Guest asrequested]

Maybe having some transcoding going on, reading and writing to the same drive?

[JXL2112 7]

Sounds like your hard drive is beginning to fail. I'd back up everything asap.

The sound has occurred with two different drives. A 1.5TB drive and now a newer 4TB drive. This didn't happen with Plex or any other software that I have used.

 

I'll upload a log file shortly.

[JXL2112 7]

Update:

 

It dawned on me that emby is installed on the C drive and my media is on the last partition. I decided to install emby on the last partition and it reduced the buzzing noise which I assume is the arm having to swing back and forth rapidly from the first partition to the last partition. Once in a while it still makes the noise though. I'll try to increase the C drive and move my media files to it and see if that further decreases the noise. The sound is unnerving to say the least.

[Luke 42086]

Thanks for the feedback !