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Jellyfin constantly causing hard drive activity - Checkerknight - 2025-12-09
I recently moved my jellyfin server off of my raspberry Pi and onto an actualy computer and I am experiencing an odd issue with constant hard drive reading. After a few minutes of inactivity on the computer itself Process Monitor will log excessive events of jellyfin accessing the drive.
The computer is an hp Prodesk 400, running windows 10 pro, with jellyfin 10.11.4.
The issue (to my best guess) has to do with metadata being accessed on the server. I have gone through and locked metadata for all my libraries, turned "automatically refresh metadata" to never, and even did a rescan/replace of all metadata so that everything is up to date. I also turned off all scheduled tasks for the moment to make sure nothing else triggers activity to try and narrow this down.
I do not see a log in jellyfin that indicates its doing anything but if someone directs me I can upload anything that is needed. I'm going to let the process go over night and maybe it will make its way through all my folders, but having the harddrive constanly have read/write activity on it doesn't seem like the best thing.