2013-12-01, 00:04
(2013-11-30, 23:55)RockDawg Wrote: Lunatixz - I think you are just trying to argue here. Of course data farm servers don't spin down hard drives. What does that have to do with anything? You really think those principals should or do apply to home servers? Of course not.
The poster had an issue with his configuration and PTV and asked if absolution could be implemented. Nothing wrong with that and it doesn't mean there is something wrong with his system.
I'm not arguing...
I posted a possible solution for his problem and my opinion on the matter. I was only trying to re enforce my suggestion. Because I truly believe its in the best interest of the user to fix it without PTV's help... after all i'm sure he watches media using other programs other than PTV so his problem is "system" related... since another program would yield the same performance issues due to a sleeping HDD.
I do apologize if you take offense to my post, it wasn't meant negatively.
(2013-11-30, 23:59)EGOvoruhk Wrote:(2013-11-30, 23:32)Lunatixz Wrote: It's not a "feature" to wake a hdd up... it should be handled by his OS!
I'm not requesting a feature to wake up the drives, I'm requesting a feature to help not break the PsuedoTV immersion/experience for those of us that idle our drives
My OS handles waking up my HDDs just fine. Sure, the 10 seconds may be a problem, but if I changed the idle timeouts or left the drives always on, I would have a larger problem on my hands of wasting power when I don't need it. I have 3 strictly-XBMC machines, so only 3 drives can be used max at all times, (assuming no other random activity on PCs). I have 24 drives in my unRAID server. I don't always need, nor do I want, them spinning
Essentially, I'm faced with a small problem (10 second delay), or a large problem (extra power usage). I obviously want to solve the large problem first, but the solution, to enable idle timeouts, creates the smaller problem
If there's an easy fix to both of my problems, I'm all ears. I'd love to not have to deal with them
I believe its in your best interest to have your system spin up your drives when using any type of media program... The solution your suggestion on PTV end isn't really possible... Sure I could have it request your next file when the upcoming prompt pops up... but what about your random selection from the EPG? how would PTV know before your pick a show what to "queue" up?
which is why I suggest you fix your configuration... a watchdog program that looks for some info that PTV, XBMC, is in use then have it spins up all your drives...
otherwise there will never be a way to have PTV work well with sleeping drives!