I know the general consensus is that spinning down disks is ill-advised. I think for my specific use-case it might be better than leaving the disks spinning, but I am looking for some input.
This box is used just as a Plex media server.
It has an 8TB desktop Seagate for my movies, a 4TB WD Red for my music, and a 2TB WD Red which houses the system dataset and is used to hold downloads from my Transmission downloader.
The thing is that I only really use Plex every few days, often times just to watch a single movie.
Based on that, I think spinning down the 8TB and 4TB might make more sense that leaving them spinning...
Since I know somebody is going to ask, I have cold spares of these drives, and a set of offline backup external drives (one in my house and one I keep at my sister's place, with them being swapped out periodically).
This box is used just as a Plex media server.
It has an 8TB desktop Seagate for my movies, a 4TB WD Red for my music, and a 2TB WD Red which houses the system dataset and is used to hold downloads from my Transmission downloader.
The thing is that I only really use Plex every few days, often times just to watch a single movie.
Based on that, I think spinning down the 8TB and 4TB might make more sense that leaving them spinning...
Since I know somebody is going to ask, I have cold spares of these drives, and a set of offline backup external drives (one in my house and one I keep at my sister's place, with them being swapped out periodically).