[mythtv-users] Spin down drives

[John Drescher]

> I have a six drive raid 6 that is used exclusively for mythtv.
>
> Mythtv's UPNP will periodically read the files on disk to update the
> exported list which keeps the disks awake.
>
> Since I don't use UPNP, I just disabled UPNP for mythtv and my drives
> happily go to sleep.
>

In the past discussions about this I believe that was definitely one
cause of disk activity. Remember read can also spin up disks.

John