SSD as transcoding folder?

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So I have 3x 10tb wd drives for my plex movies and these drives are pretty expensive (350$ each). All plex files are hosted in the same drives.

I was thinking a out buying a cheap SSD drive (around 50-70$) and use this as the transcoding temp folder, to save the main WD hard drives from extra load, and to make the lifetime of the drives longer.

Is there anything I should think of when buying SSD for the plex transcoding folder? Any specific feature it needs to have to “last longer”? Since the SSD is cheap, I don’t care that much about the lifetime of it, but want to get maximal return of investment from it :slight_smile:

My only concern are the WD main drives.

PS: ram prices are way more expensive than SSD, so its cheaper to use SSD than ram for transcoding folder.

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So you will be doing a LOT of read / write functions with an SSD, so you will realistically want an enterprise or pro quality SSD to accommodate what you’re doing, or they will die very, very fast depending on usage. I would personally recommend a Samsung 940 Pro or better, and around 128-256GB in size depending on how many simultaneous transcodes you plan on doing. Personally I use a Samsung 970 Pro NVME in a NVME to PCIe 3.0 adapter, but it’s the same concept.

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