This is fantastic to see, but I recently moved away from Immich with heavy heart because of a simple issue.

I have a very minimal setup with just a RasberryPi and an external hard drive, I don’t need to access anything from outside my home so it is not setup to be accessible via internet, just Wifi.

Since I am not home all the time I set it up that the hard drive goes to sleep after an hour or so of inactivity. It is not unusal that this means it get to be in sleep mode for 8-10 hours once or twice per day, whicb I’d assume is better for its life expectancy.

Since an update this year though something changed for Immich, I think it was connected to the postgres database… sorry, don’t remember fully since this was like 2 months ago. It would keep checking or writing on the drive and thus keep it awake the entire day. 24/7.

I found some issues on github that mentioned this from months ago and they didn’t come to a good conclusion how to solve this, so unless this is adressed I cannot use Immich, sadly. Putting postgres on the SD card instead would probably suck for how long that one will be alive.