Sure, let me elaborate.
- PMSLibShare (which creates the pseudo shared folder “Plex”) is a static operation.
- PlexData is a dynamic one. It is dynamic in that as you “Migrate To” (in App Center), the linkage to your Plex data is adjusted automatically when it starts again.
- There is no advantage to creating it on a SSD. There is far greater advantage to “migrate to” (migrating your PMS installation) move the entire Plex install to the SSD.
- There is no real data in PlexData unless you place something there. I only create a 4KB symbolic link to (using QPKG syntax)
${QPKG_DIR}/Library/Plex Media Server
. Most of us will see this as/share/CACHEDEVx_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex Media Server
when looking at it in the shell. - SMB access (if granted by the NAS admin) works very well. QNAP’s CIFS server follows the links transparently. From a Windows client, making a ZIP backup of “Plex Media Server” onto the Windows machine works perfect
May I suggest going through the FAQ I created?