Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/TryTurningItOffAgain on 2025-06-20 15:46:04+00:00.

I've been running my server for over a year now and I'm looking to add a cloud storage and immich onto my stack.

I use proxmox + unraid. I try to keep my electricity usage low since electricity is nearing $.40/kwh. I typically idle at 36-40W.

The next services I'd like to spin up is cloud storage and immich.

I successfully got seafile 12 running on unraid, but I noticed that seafile would spin up one of my drives every 20 minutes or so, which bothers me because I've gone this far keeping hdd activity at a minimum and spins up as expected when someone streams from plex, or scheduled tasks. I was able to successfully split the frigate directory to a cache pool so it doesn't spin up the array often.

I've tried posting several times for a solution, but no avail: https://www.reddit.com/r/seafile/comments/1l65861/anyone_here_uses_unraid_seafile_keeps_the_array/ https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/1l5zudi/how_to_split_map_directories/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/1l559sh/how_to_move_a_particular_directory_to_cache/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/1koiwxl/mapping_path_within_an_already_mapped_path/

I'm wondering:

1. Does another self hosted storage service respect hdd activity and spin down drives accordingly? nextcloud?
2. Will immich also spin up a drive constantly?
3. Will I just have to accept a drive to be constantly running?