A few large consumer-grade SSDs for Plex storage?

[oguruma]

I'm mulling the idea of building a 3x 4TB in RAID-Z1 pool for storing my Plex movies/shows.

The idea being that the drive will rarely be written to (only when adding new content), and theoretically the SSDs would last a very long time.

Hopefully in a year or so, expansion support will be added, and I can another one if in the future.

Does anybody have any experience with this? 3x 4TB MX500s would cost about $1050, compared to only $300 the 3x 4TB spinning drives...

 

[HoneyBadger]

It will of course work - but why? You're unlikely to ever need the random I/O performance, and unless you have extremely expensive electricity (or are trying to live off-grid) the break-even point is way, way in the future.

 

[NugentS]

The only reasons I can think of are:
1. Noise - a pure SSD build will be quieter, depending on the rest of the kit
2. Too much money
3. Likely longevity - I can see some appeal
4. Man Maths - by spending a fortune now it will reduce the annual electric bills by a small amount in comparison to 4 HDD's. This has a feel good factor (or am I just strange?)

 

[HoneyBadger]

Also

5. Because I Can

Which is always a valid reason in itself.