sabnzbd crashes my hard drive

[drknickel]

Hello everyboy,

first of all thx for this nice tool, this is my first post here.

I have a htpc with 3 WD20EARS Sata with 2 TB each running.

When sabnzbd starts downloading, after some time, my drive where i download to disappears. It simply is gone, all the downloads fail. Only when i reboot the drive comes back up. I dont know if this is a sabnzbd problem or my drive, but this only happens when i use sabnzbd and i have no clue what to do

Do you guys have any idea or tip for me? Thank you so much!

Of course i have already updated all my drivers. I use Win 7 32 edition.

Greetings

[pmow]

It sounds like a problem with your drives or your Windows install and not something with sabnzbd - the program is simply saving files to the disk as any other would. Unless you can access the drives from Windows, it really isn't sabnzbd's fault your drives got dismounted. I'm not aware of any bugs which would cause that under normal circumstances. I'm guessing you're using some sort of RAID or spanning disk configuration; Do you have a controller that might be the culprit?

[drknickel]

Ok, that is what i was thinking, too.

But i have no Raid or whatsoever And it happens only with sabnzbd. Perhaps anyone has an idea whtat i can try

Thx for your help

Greets

[pmow]

But i have no Raid or whatsoever And it happens only with sabnzbd. Perhaps anyone has an idea whtat i can try

You don't have any array setup...so you have 3 drives with individual drive letters? (D:, E:, F: for example) Which drive fails? If you change sab to a different drive, does that one die on you as well?

[shypike]

For obvious reasons, SABnzbd can put quite a load on the disk.
One way to alleviate this is to set an article cache in Config->General.
This will reduce the large amount of small temporary files written to disk.