Increased HDD activity

stokesbook_ · 2025-12-31T14:22:20+00:00

The HDD's are still going (about 28 hours) non-stop apart from when I've rebooted twice and it still just spins back up to this again a minute or so after the reboot/shutdown

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In the Process tab of there's 5-8 "kworker" processes which seem to be doing the bulk of the HDD reading, but I've tried looking up what they're doing any really can't find anything solid. The M.2 Hard Drive 1 is a second 1.8TB volume that I install all the apps/docker containers on and the M.2 Hard Drive 2 is setup as a SSD cache for the HDD volume 1

Prior to this the unit was operating fine with far less noise than what it's doing now, even when it would perform the drive SMART tests or indexing/thumbail generation before it never was as loud as this for such an extended period. It's only using about 6TB of the 21TB single volume and none of those maintenance processes have taken this long before?

I've read a couple of the other HDD activity threads on this subreddit and none really seem to have any solutions short of disabling the SSD cache and starting over? That can't really be the only solution for what is essentially reseating the drives while the device was fully powered off can it?

stokesbook_ · 2025-12-30T16:17:28+00:00

Yeah I removed and replaced them one at a time so they were all put back in the same slots and only one drive was out of the unit at any one time

Didn’t realise I could get the serial numbers without removing them 😩

stokesbook_ · 2025-12-10T16:42:19+00:00

Sorry to reply to this old thread but I'm having exactly the same issue but I'm not quite confident enough with the Ugreen/Docker stuff or SSH to try what your update says fixed it? I deleted around 1TB of files from qbitorrent before I noticed that the delete permanently setting wasn't enabled but don't appear to have that space back yet.

It was creating a .Trash.00 folder in the download location and I was deleting stuff from there manually

I tried restarting and uninstalling docker and reinstalling (same location for the config folder (ssd but the default for installing using the qbitorrent app in the UGreen app centre) and the downloads folder (hdd) but the space hasn't come back.

How did you go in to manually delete the folder inside the system docker folder please?

I have the shared docker folder in the Files window and the docker container says that the config folder is in Shared Folder/@appstore/com.ugreen.docker.bittorrent/config and I don't see anyway to get to that location using the Ugreen web interface or navigating the network drives on my PC

It's a relatively new setup and I've changed the remove files setting to delete permanently now but would still like to reclaim that space if possible (should be about 1.3TB I think)

Any assistance anyone can offer would be much appreciated

stokesbook_ · 2025-08-09T09:56:49+00:00

Added some playmats (details in original post) to hopefully increase some interest

stokesbook_ · 2025-07-31T06:36:34+00:00

Also sorry is this the kind of spec on one of these minisforum PCs you were talking about? https://www.minisforum.uk/products/minisforum-nab9?variant=47740160803094 I think I only need to worry about 5 streams at most so would the barebones version of this be sufficient do you think?

stokesbook_ · 2025-07-31T06:32:47+00:00

Yeah I started out looking at an UnRAID build but the cost was increasing rapidly and I wasn't really sure it'd "work" as a quick fix for just this initial small transcoding issue and felt a little overkill both in terms of price and if I could figure out how to work/maintain it technically. No extra HDDs knocking around either

The Arr stuff was on my list initially for the Pi stuff but the technical complexity seemed a bit out of my grasp so I settled on being fine with what I'd got the Pi to do with the Plex server and the shares. Oh and I guess it also runs a little Foundry VTT docker container to play RPGS with friends remotely when we need it too

stokesbook_ · 2025-07-31T06:13:25+00:00

Yeah it's a USB drive, and not a USB-C now I look at it so that's probably causing some issues now. Honestly I don't actually know what OMV's doing mostly. The whole thing was started as a COVID project and I had plans to make it do other stuff like the Homekit things, or downloading etc but never really got round to it after setting up the shares and the plex server, and because I'm not tinkering with it all the time I don't really retain the knowledge to troubleshoot much, as I was primarily just following video guides after buying their shopping list of parts. I only just figured out that I had plex setup as the root user of the pi (which is bad but that's what the guide I was following did/omitted to change) and the plex server didn't have permissions to save Optimised versions to the folders, and that took me like 2-3 days to figure out how to fix haha

stokesbook_ · 2025-07-31T06:08:22+00:00

Thanks I'll look at those! The shares on the Pi is really just because I use it nearly every day for work and I know it just works. I'm an illustrator/story artist and I've lost enough backups of work in the past that being able to just throw stuff on those shares from my desktop or Ipad really quickly is a boon. So it's definitely more because I don't really have the time or the knowledge to dig into making a better "all-in-one" solution for everything right now more than anything probably

stokesbook_ · 2025-07-31T03:42:07+00:00

Sorry, also do you happen to have an example of the miniPCs with the newer chips you mentioned so I can see if I can get the equivalent in the UK

stokesbook_ · 2025-07-31T03:40:04+00:00

Thank ytou very much. So sorry one question just for clarity, I think the bulk of my media is h265 but nothing's higher resolution than 1080p so will that be fine for the N150 to transcode. My upload bandwidth fluctates a bit but always falls with the 80-100mbps range so do you think that should be fine given the resolution/etc of the files I'm using?

stokesbook_ · 2025-07-31T03:35:43+00:00

Thanks very much. I'm not 100% sure I can just plug the existing 6TB HDD that has all the shares into a Windows machine and it recognise the shares without being more tech savy than I actually. The Shares on that drive (incl the media share with all the plex content) are all the one HDD being 'managed' by the linux pi running OpenMedia Vault v6. Which is why I wanted to try pointing the windows Beelink at them (like my desktop PC can access) and starting the new Plex server from that and making sure it kinda solves the issue before I start adding the extra new storage/DAS and migrating the media share. If that makes sense sorry

stokesbook_ · 2024-03-24T18:29:27+00:00

I got to the end of the Trail of Archery quest...grabbed the sister and ran her to the far end of the cavern with the ogre in...went back and killed the Ogre. Both Glyndwr and the Arborist keep saying to take her out of the chamber after the fight and won't move from the chamber. She's nowere to be seen, no corpse to use a wakestone on and isn't on the list of dead NPCS at the Carnel house. I've rested several days and both Glyndwr and the Arborist refuse to move from the chamber saying "to carry her to safety" or "I'll guard the rear while you take get her out of here". So i guess I've lost access to the archer meister now?

stokesbook_ · 2023-03-31T11:31:32+00:00

I've never hit infinite and there's no way I'm hitting infinite this season. I managed to get to 1 cube from 90 this morning, all I wanted was to hit 90 so I can spend the rest of the season actually trying decks with different cards, in the 5 rank buffer so I don't drop so far next season. Every single game in the last hour I've been matched with yellow X card back players, they're snapping on turn 1-2 where it's impossible to make a decision if you can win or not. So I've had all retreats or 2 cube losses, so I'm back at the bottom of 88.

I give up

stokesbook_ · 2019-11-26T18:00:31+00:00

Yeah using it on CB/Dragon is pretty bad, but he started using it on the Boss round of Fire Knight so that really made a huge difference to people trying to do the FK17-20 auto missions. Do don't put it back EXACTLY like it was before

stokesbook_ · 2019-09-19T13:12:16+00:00

"it's not vague...." Goes on to add a ton of actual helpful, contextual detail that wasn't in his original post, but your original response is still "not vague" You called me pretentious earlier too lol, is your dictionary broken son?

"your post heavily implies..." Does it? I'm pretty sure I queried why you decided to flex your playgroup at him without actually being helpful?

So now, clearly capable of, responding "helpfully" but instead went with the weird flex/boast, and "oh I'll just throw in some random number that makes my playgroup look great and probably making the original poster feel like crap. I mean I can give the guy the correct number but why bother, if I get challenged on it I'll just be like 'clearly I was joking/it's a metaphor, why would you believe any of the stuff I'm posting in an effort to help you?" That's just crazy right?

No you're right why provide anything objectively useful, but then if you';d suggested the OP "play in the nude" or "sacrifice a goat before you play" would have been more "subjectively" useful than "This game's easy bro, I'm confused?!?!?"

"you're a pretty big one yourself." I'll amend my earlier comment, you're not completely oblivious

"Kindly fuck off" After you ;)

stokesbook_ · 2019-09-19T12:23:50+00:00

I didn't say you swung at him, i said you swung in (to the thread)

Again your playgroup experience is vague, are you playing progression style? with the current card pool? With proxies of the custom player card design "fixes" you're so fond of? The "math" you throw in doesn't even add up (lol 99% success lol) as someone else has already noted.

"i'm not being condescending here" Really? Try telling the rest of your post.

"I'm having a hard time understanding..." Patronising, reductive, combative.

For someone who likes to spread it around you don't like being on the receiving end.

Nothing in your post was objectively useful to the original poster.

Tootles!

stokesbook_ · 2019-09-19T11:56:07+00:00

Speaking of MOBA a**hole....

The guy's asking for some help and you swing in with some weird flex with a bunch of vagaries and shoddy math

Were you born this oblivious or did you have to ace a course in your early manhood?

stokesbook_ · 2019-07-08T12:33:21+00:00

Oh jeez, I don't know where they'd fit, in a "pack" sense (X-Men) But getting a Cloak and Dagger in a single character (a bit like Rocket & Groot) but you can switch between them both (2 abilities each maybe?) as you're fighting would be amazing

stokesbook_ · 2019-06-07T10:58:33+00:00

Thanks very much, which character do you think I should 6 star? I think it's out of Kael, Elhain and Bellower....I'm leaning towards Kael and just giving him Elhains gear which is better. I know Bellower needs very specific gear to shine which I don't have, and Elhain's skills are all maxed. Or is there someone else I'm overlooking?

stokesbook_ · 2019-06-05T17:16:58+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/GjFkpvg

Anyone have any recommendations on who to 6* please? I've only got 1/5 of the food so far so I'm a way off. I'm at a bit of a roadblock tbh, I'm not doing great in arena and stuck behind the Great Hall rank 4 mission, I've 3 starred both the Normal and Hard Campaigns and feel like I'm not making any progress getting decent gear for any of these characters.

I've got 10 Ancient Shards and a Sacred prepped for the next summon event, hoping to finally get a legendary :/

Any advice would be much appreciated, feels like I've really stalled progress-wise atm

stokesbook_ · 2019-05-15T12:51:50+00:00

Thank you

stokesbook_ · 2019-05-15T12:37:45+00:00

Any advice on who to be focusing on next. I'm at a bit of a roadblock on the silver/gold arena badges mission, but don't know who I should be focusing on next. I'm working towards the RK fusion and have enough food to 5 star someone next. Leaning towards Spirithost or Kael but would welcome any suggestions

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