![]() Using autofs means that whilst my Mac is awake, it will continously attempt to mount the PersonalMedia share on the NAS – whether it’s being used or not – effectivily disabling the NAS’s ability to sleep. ![]() The same benefits apply to devices that may live permanently on your network, but regularly go to sleep and need to reliably re-mount volumes on wake. However, unlike drives mounted manually through the Finder, or even by a “Login Item” at login time, autofs mounted volumes will automatically connect and reconnect as needed whenever the network volumes are available, and quietly disconnect when they’re not. This is more of an issue with Plex, as the disconnected share is not accessible when you try to access the Plex library for that share, Plex returns an error – understandibly as the drive is no longer available.Īutofs is a utility that will mount network volumes on your OS X system, just like you would do through the Finder. So if I’m using the Mac, but not accessing the PersonalMedia share, then after 20 minutes the NAS will go to sleep and the network drive will disconnect, and the only way to reconnect is using the Finder option, Connect to Server or performing a restart. The problem is that the Mac will only attempt to connect to the NAS on power up from cold start/restart or from sleep. The Synology NAS is set to spin down the disks after 20 minutes of inactivity and wake on LAN when requested (WOL), which is great as it’ll preserve the life of the disks and of course use less power consumption when not in use. With the NAS mounted using Finder and adding it to the “Login Item” for automatic mounting, I was all set, or so I thought… I recently bought a Synology NAS, and copied the contents of the PersonalMedia into the Synology using RAID 1 redundancy (2x 2TB WD Red). Connected to the Mac are two USB external drives, one called Media for movies, TV shows, etc… and the other one called PersonalMedia for photos and camcorder/home videos. I have a Apple Mac Mini that I use as a HTPC using Plex.
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