7 hours ago
For a Plex only setup like yours, letting the Exos drives spin down is absolutely fine. These drives are enterprise rated and can handle regular spin up cycles without meaningful wear. A five hour timeout is a good middle ground: it saves heat and noise, reduces power draw, and avoids constant on off cycling. The only downside is a short delay the first time Plex touches a file on a spun down pool. If that doesn’t bother you, keep the spindown enabled.
If you ever move to more active workloads like VMs or heavy docker use, you would keep them spinning. But for media storage, spindown is safe, effective, and normal.
A few useful items here:
Seagate Exos
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Seagate+Exos&...=ncmail-20
If you ever move to more active workloads like VMs or heavy docker use, you would keep them spinning. But for media storage, spindown is safe, effective, and normal.
A few useful items here:
Seagate Exos
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Seagate+Exos&...=ncmail-20