This is what I have found too. In fact I believe I've narrowed it down to Plex. Unraid logs do not appear to show when a docker initiates a read on a disk so it always appears that following a spin down the SMART Read wakes the drive up. My understanding is that SMART reads are not attempted on idle drives so they do not spin up. But when they do spin up then a SMART read is initiated immediately. I've shut down Plex and now all of my drives are staying idle. 1 hour so far whereas before th