Hi folks, I have 3 x WD MyBook 8Tb USB drives attached to my PC, one containing 734 high quality 1080 BluRay encodes has gone down, mechanical failure (clicking and squeaking noise). Obviously I can see this library of files in my Plex as “Unavailable”. As the quotes I’ve had for hard drive recover…

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Got Ninja’ed by a Plex Ninja. GitHub - WebTools-NG/WebTools-NG: WebTools Next Generation for Plex will do what you are looking for.

Edit: Couldn’t make any progress with with WebTools-NG, was just stuck on a constant loading circle after logging in. Found how to generate a file list of the library with Plex Media Scanner command. Sorted, thanks.

You can also use advanced filters to show which videos that plex considers missing/trash. [image] I would also advise ensuring that “empty trash after rescan “ is OFF

One thing to keep in mind is that the bigger the drive the more susceptible they are to failure. There are lots of articles about this. If you are planning on using large drives you may want to invest in some type of raid setup.

Though that “rule of thumb” isn’t always true :wink: [image] 2020 Hard Drive Reliability Report by Make and Model The AFR for 2020 dropped below 1% down to 0.93%. In 2019, it stood at 1.89%. That’s over a 50% drop year over year. Est. reading time: 8 minutes …

8TB Drive Gone Down - Need A File List?

Plex Media Server

tom80H December 29, 2021, 3:46pm 2

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8TB Drive Gone Down - Need A File List?

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