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Jean-Sébastien Guayskylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jan 7, 2026, 11:49 PM
Hello @homelab peeps! I was wondering if anyone had tips to improve the following:
My NAS (TrueNAS Scale) permanently seeds some torrents, for example all the Exo projects like ExoDOS and some Amiga-related ones. Sizes range from a few GiB to hundreds of GiB.
I noticed that this makes my NAS hard drives constantly read, I can hear them seeking (I guess it fetches random parts of the torrent data so the ZFS cache in RAM is basically useless). I'm worried the drives will fail sooner. Ideas?
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Jean-Sébastien Guayskylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jan 7, 2026, 11:51 PM
(sorry for those who boosted the previous toot, I had to delete and repost it because I messed up the group @ and editing it back in afterwards didn't work)
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Bartosz Taudulwolfpld@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jan 8, 2026, 10:34 AM
@skylark13 @homelab Don't waste your time. The NAS drives will constantly seek whether they are in use or not. Supposedly it's to keep the head bearings lubed up.
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Jean-Sébastien Guayskylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jan 8, 2026, 11:37 AM
@wolfpld Not sure if that's true (or maybe it is but to a lesser extent), because if I stop the qbittorrent process or pause the seeding, I don't hear the drives seeking as much as I do when it's running.
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Bartosz Taudulwolfpld@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jan 8, 2026, 12:13 PM
@skylark13 Maybe it's model dependent then? My NAS is idle for 99% of the time (unless I'm actively using it or overnight maintenance tasks run), but it's seeking every 2 to 4 seconds, constantly. I was very annoyed by this, but eventually it just becomes background noise.
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Jean-Sébastien Guayskylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place
Jan 8, 2026, 12:18 PM
@wolfpld Not sure. To be clear, the constant seeking I'm talking about that worries me is really constant, not intermittent every few seconds. Imagine the sound a hard drive makes when you're starting your system, it's like that all the time. It may still be seeking every few seconds when I stop the seeding, I just don't notice anymore because the difference is so stark.
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