I have a Plex Shield 16GB with a 128GB usb drive (Sandisk Ultra) adoptable storage. I thought my days of filling up internal memory were over. However, PMS stopped serving up content a few days ago. When I finally looked at it today, I found that there was plenty of space available on internal 16GB (>8GB) and only 100MB left on the 128GB adoptable storage.
I went into Apps and saw that the Plex cache was 108GB+. What the heck?!? I opened up ES explorer and browse to the cache folder on the adoptable storage and saw three cache folders (there was no ‘sync’ subfolder and I haven’t used sync in quite a while). I tried to open one of the cache subfolders, but ES explorer kept spinning so I backed out. I’m running a “clear cache” from the nvidia shield menu and it’s slowly deleting the cache files.
However, any ideas on what’s going on? I have ‘transcode’ turned on for my DVR (I’ve got an old HDHOMERUN serving up mpeg2 streams). I don’t want to keep manually deleting the cache.
I thought I’d save a few bucks by not going with the Pro (and I like the smaller size), but I never expected 100GB+ PMS footprint on internal memory. I’ve only had the shield’s PMS running for a week or so. I was previously running on a Windows NUC for years w/o issues. Thought the shield would allow me to shut down the PC for good.
-Mark
