Description: Mail - Cloud - Communication
I run a Nextcloud instance since Nextcloud 10 came out, which means since somewhen 2016. Initially, this instance was used for file sharing and syncing calenders and address books for me and my wife. During the years until today, both its range of tasks and the amount of active users grew up, and similarly its demand for compute power. As a consequence, this Nextcloud instance went not only through all major releases that came out. It was also transferred from a shared webspace hoster over a 1-core-4-GiB vi
My home server running Ubuntu 20.04 acts as a NAS besides several other roles. Most of the time (as long as no one is accessing data) the associated hard drives are sleeping, spun down by hd-idle after 10 minutes of inactivity. What annoys me really bad is that they spin up most of the times I only login to the server via SSH: Every spin-up wears out the drive and every unnecessary spin-up wears out the drive unnecessarily. Since all OS data is located on a SSD, none of the NAS hard drives should be touched
After some research (e.g. here and here ) I found the reason and some kind of solution / workaround: