The hero we need, not the one we deserve. Thanks for your work dude!

Thanks, this video was being dragged out so much, this helped.

You're amazing

Thanks. This is nice to have.

13:35 Sneeze

Fake news lol

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With only 32GB of memory?

Wow

30gb spare ram ..!!! Wth man ..what do you even do??

Curious how you do that, my family always on my plex if I can make a portable version, that would be cool so they leave my Bandwith alone hahaha But really how you do that, if I understand right, I might have the purpose of the spare HDDs wrong, can you explain a bit more?

What OS did you use?

Out of curiousity, why bother bual booting Windows/FreeNAS? Shutting down your NAS and loading up Windows doesn't seem to make much sense.

@@alexipeck4201 At the time I was using it as my main system for everything. Windows is very inefficient for a HTPC environment. I eventually ditched that whole idea and went with a separate UNRAID server. A lot more efficient and management of docker containers is much easier in my opinion. Plus I have a dedicated box that can encode video to my desired format which is a benefit so my Plex media server content didn’t have to be transcoded on the fly to my devices.

Just remember that this is only necessary if you are transcoding. If your playback is local this is unnecessary since you can directplay. That said it's a good idea if you have lots of extra ram and transcode often.

To give you an idea of how long ssd's can last the mSATA (256gb) in my Toshiba Z930 i7 that ran the same 24/7 as my Asus G74SX laptop does that I've commented on elsewhere. I reboot once a week... The Toshiba is a downdloading, pirating (seedbox) everything device basically! That ssd lasted close to 7yrs (almost to the day actually) as it was my wife's birthday when I bought it for her and when she noticed it had died... The bad though like all things in life is that I tell everyone to back everything up and didn't do the same for myself in that last 3 months!!! The 960gb ssd Crucial (cheap ssd) in my PS4 has been going strong with repeated abuse from being full of new games and updates, patches etc (poeer outages!) since I bought it and it is the first generation console. The ejection button is rooted though!

@@brettus9115 That is a completely different use case from transcoding. Vastly different. Neither of your use cases have near the same level of writes as transcoding.

They get stored where ever you are storing your plex metadata.

Same I figure my 8700k gaming pc is on 24/7 anyways. I just have a synlogy nas as a network drive mapped to my gaming pc and it works pretty well.

Pssh, my Plex server is running on Ubuntu server which is running in a virtual machine on my Windows 10 PC.

@@robertfox05 How many users at once can you handle?

I got a pi ffs

@@jackiechan8840 Does plex even work on a pi?

Or just setup free Macrium Reflect to backup your metadata drive to an image file automatically every night.

@@combatepistemologist8382 Hadn't heard of that... going to have to look into it. Thanks!

@@combatepistemologist8382 Won't work for a WD PR4100 NAS need to use a seperate program, SFTP, to access metadata, every single time you want to access and back it up.

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You definitely can, but it won't work the way you intend. Internally you connect SSDs via SATA Ports, which are multiple times faster than USB ports ... SSD via USB results to speeds even slower than mechanical hard drives...

No. It doesn't do anything if you are using hardware transcoding

You should just be able to go to settings>manage>libraries>add library>photos then select your Seagate drive.

@@mutt7780 might have to look into that a bit further. dont have the time for that right now. its indeed around 100MB when i start a new stream. but seems to be slowly creeping up while the steam is active. and then when its terminated the ram usage drops back to regular levels.

@@TheDadNerd thats exacly how i've done it too, just changed the /transcode folder in the docker container to /tmp on the server. no need to change anything in the plex config.

I was thinking of the guy " Sam the cooking guy"

It’s always cool to see KZfaqrs answer viewers questions about topics they are experts in. Hang in there, I’m sure he’ll get around to it in the next three years…

This "shouldn't" be happening, obviously :) A couple of potential issues come to mind. First, be sure that there's no instabilities in your storage connection. For example if you are using a share and that share disconnects it could cause issues with Plex's discovery process for content. The other thing I can think of is more of a TV show issue but... sometimes Plex can think that content is newer than other content when it's really not and this is due to the metadata for the content having a date in the future. I've had a few shows that stay up front until the incorrect future date is passed.

@@santiagodraco Thanks for the reply. All of the media in question was added at the same time when I switched from Kodi to Plex. Then, I've been adding movies as I collect them. There were no disconnects during the initial import that I know of and if you Google this issue, there are literally 1000's of people with this issue. There is even a "fix" called the Plex Dance to delete your library and add them back slowly to get them in the correct order. There are also a ton of threads about directly editing the SQL database to correct the dates.

@@MrV1NC3N7V3G4 Gotcha. I've been running Plex for a LONG time and have gone through many different platforms and the like... this particular problem I've not experienced unless I rebuilt the library. The real solution to the problem would be for Plex to embed some form of metadata into the movie folder itself much like was done for/with Media Center, Kodi and the like. So that when Plex loads a movie into the library it updates the status of that title within a metadata file in the title directory. Play the file? Set the played flag... alongside the file. This would allow for a full recovery of the state of your Plex environment even if you completely lost your Plex data directory/db itself. Doubt that will ever happen though :/

@@santiagodraco Exactly. Up until Plex, I used Kodi with local information only and Tiny Media Manager to look up all Metadata and then be able to modify any of that data in your nfo files automatically so your library is exactly how you want it. With Plex, it gets added and that's it. You cannot pre-configure the Metadata. I am currently using the native Plex app for Android but was wanting to use Plexkodiconnect, however it wasn't reading my RAID array correctly or something so I'll have to work on that some more.

You cannot. Plex need internet to work, for transcoding. That is the downside of this program.

Sorin Ichim wrong. if you're talking about using your plex LOCALLY at your house on your iwn wifi network you arent using the "internet" at all. you can have no internet access but as long as your wifi router is up and running and its connected via plex and the player you wanna use, youll be able to watch anything. and transcoding also have nothing to do with the internet either. its all server-side. so yes you can use it locally without connection to the internet

I had to create a temp folder in the ram disk before it worked then point the transcoding to that folder. seems all data deletes when trans coding is done. I realized after I did this I don't even use transcoding! I copy the movies I need to the microSD before leaving on a trip and I don't stream, no sense opening another door to you network just to watch a movie!

There would absolutely be a difference as long as the nvme SSD was in a slot that could support it's full speed BUT it wouldn't be all that noticable because ssds are so fast already for Plex tasks.

@@sirgriffinman - For normal file transfers I'd agree with you, but Plex I would think would be limited by other factors such as your network speed to and from it. So even with the faster indexing of NVME, would that actually increase by going to nvme or would you still be limited by the network?

Since metadata is mainly used for querying, it really depends on the size of your data set. A small data set won't see much difference between a Sata, Nvme, or PCI SSD. A bigger dataset, would see the differences with higher speed storage.