Clone to bigger drive question

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Running too low on space on my OS drive with Plex and all the extras. I know I’ve read it in the past tons of different ways, what to make sure you do and don’t do etc – but if I’m just using Acronis and cloning one 250gig SSD to one 500gig SSD and swapping the bigger one in to gain some extra space and everything else is staying the same, Plex won’t have any problems right?

The path where local application data is stored:
C:\Users\Matt\AppData\Local

TIA!

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I migrated my system drive using Acronis from an HDD to an NVMe drive, there were no issues, plex was intact and everything acted like it was the original system drive, just faster… Going up or down in size poses no problem

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Another thing worth considering is if possible keeping both drives.
All the Plex metadata doesn’t need to be stored on the OS drive.
You could move the metadata to the new drive. Then should the need to ever reinstall the OS in the future simply point the fresh PMS install to the drive you stored the metadata. … as long as make sure that the drive letters for your data stay the same. In which case Plex will be restored as was within a few seconds.

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I didn’t think this was possible. Where can I set the Metadata Storage? I’ve been looking all over and have failed to see it! lol

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Yep
Settings > General

Steps to take.

  1. Shut down Plex.
  2. Preferably Copy (not move) the whole PMS folder to the root of your new drive from your local appdata directory.
  3. Start Plex and point to the root of the new drive (not to the PMS directory itself)
  4. Restart Plex once more.
  5. Once confirmed you can delete the files from the original appdata path.
    From then on if there is ever a need to reinstall the OS it’s as simple as Install Plex and put your custom metadata path in. (Again assuming you set yourmedia paths to whatever they were previously if they change on reinstall)
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Best practice is app data is on an SSD for faster cover art and library loads, right? Otherwise I’d put it on my drivepool thats 100TB but not sure if that would make everything load slowly or not

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Drive pool doesn’t work for metadata (at least under Windows).

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Ahhh, thanks @OttoKerner - Just upgrading to a bigger OS drive it is then!

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the metadata will be cached (extra ram helps), but yeah for best performance you want the plex database to be on fastest ssd.

and it is less about max read/write speed, but more about latency (response time).

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