As this is temp data and will be removed anyway after you finish watching a movie, I did think of using `tmpfs` (file system but only sit on RAM) for this transcoding folder, however, this is not feasible due to the large size of the transcoded videos and cannot fit in the tiny 1GB memory of the Pi. The heaviest disk IO operation is the transcoding of video.
Due to this behavior, the SD Card that came with the Pi simply couldn’t keep up, overheated and paused randomly middle of a heavy write sometimes. These data can be metadata, caches, and transcoded video data. Later down the road, I realized that Plex is a heavy storage usage application that reads and writes to the persistent layer at high frequency. For the storage, in the beginning, I used a 1TB Seagate HDD as the home for all of my movies and TV Shows.
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