Hey everyone. I have a nice unraid server with sas drives and with plex I find that my kids and wife watch the same stuff all the time. I spin down my sas drives to keep power consumption down but at the same time the lag to start them up is annoying as well as I don’t to cause extra wear and tear on the drives by having them spin up and down multiple times a day.

So I was thinking about buying 3x Samsung QVO 8tb drives and firing up a ZFS pool and moving stuff they watch all the time to there. that would speed up reads and reduce wear and tear on the drives.

For backup I rotate externals for critical data every week in and out of my fireproof safe with two 4tb external usb. Our media storage I have a second unraid server that starts up every Saturday and rsyncs from primary and powers off.