Even though this is a Pi 5 rather than 4, I'd suggest disabling UAS mode on the HD as described inI'm on my 2nd Pi5 now as I thought my first one may have been a bad unit but it seems this issue is consistent. I am running my Pi5 as a Plex / CasaOS media server with a 16TB external hard drive (exFAT) attached. Whenever I am transferring files over network and / or watching a movie and the pi5 CPU reaches 100 it completely locks up to where I have to force restart (power button or unplug). The causes can be either one or a combination of watching movies or network transfers. I've tried to even wait a week before to see if it would unfreeze but it never does.
Any recommendations to not get this complete freeze / lock? Is there anything I can do to "tame" the CPU hog of Plex and CasaOS? or an $80 computer gonna be an $80 computer?
Before you guys go on about power units, I've tried them ALL, including the official RPI 27W. Wy hard drive is self powered and plugged into a self powered USB hub as well.
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If that doesn't help, are you running short of RAM and going into swap?
You might also try a firmware update.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:54 am