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Note that hdparm only controls if/when the disks themselves decide to spin down; it does not control if/when Windows decides to spin the disks down, nor does it prevent them from being spun back up by Windows or an application or service accessing the disks, and the effect is (normally?) per-boot, not permanent. If you want to permanently alter the idle timer of a specific hard drive, you should consult the manufacturer. An issue here is that DrivePool does not keep a record of where files are stored, so I presume it would have to wake up (enough of?) the pool as a whole to find the disk containing the file you want if you didn't have (enough of?) the pool's directory stucture cached in RAM by the OS (or other utility).

hello even if you're not using bitlocker, you MUST change the setting value from null to false in the DrivePool json file. otherwise DP will ping your disks every 5secs or so, and your disks will never sleep at all anyway. then you begin messing around with windows settings to set when they sleep. folks here have had varying degrees of success getting drives to sleep, some with no luck at all. in StableBit Scanner there are various Advanced Power Management (APM) settings that bypass windows and control the drive through its firmware. i have read of success going that route, but have no experience at all since i am old school and my 'production' DP drives spin constantly cuz that's how i like it. to change the json: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Advanced_Settings there are many threads here on this topic as you have seen, but of course i can't find them easily now that i'm looking lol... perhaps @Shane or @Christopher (Drashna) will provide the link where Alex (the developer) explains the APM settings in Scanner and the whole drive sleep issue in general in greater detail. tl;dr you must turn off bitlocker detection first before your drives will ever sleep. BTW if you ever trial StableBit CloudDrive you must change the same setting in its json as well. good luck Edit: found the link: https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/48-questions-regarding-hard-drive-spindownstandby/

@VapechiK Thanks for your replies and advice, I will work through your suggestions tomorrow when I have time, I really appreciate your response and the links I should be able to get somewhere with all that information🙂 @Shane Thank you that is all very useful to know. I am not sure if DrivePool will be suitable if all the disks are spinning up for each access but I will try and resolve the sleep issue first and then test to see how it works out with Plex.

Uh, yes, I'd agree, it's not a task for DrivePool - because it doesn't do that. DrivePool just pools files, the specific content of those files is irrelevant to it. Post screenshot (redact specifics if necessary)?