Does "Plex Data" have any affect on Playback?

Nonstop lately, more often later at night, I get streams that appear to buffer. They aren’t buffering though. They never resume. It happens using my Nvidia Shield as well as my FireCube TV. It’s also happening for some friends as well - all of us a

The spinning dial just appears on the FireCube and will spin forever. The second I back out, hit resume, it instantly plays again. Then seems to happen over and over and seems to be getting worse. Sometimes it happens 5 times during an hour long show.

OS with Plex is on SSD at 100% health. Plex Data is on another SSD, which is at 85% health according to CrystalDisk. Can Plex Data be causing any of these issues, or is replacing it a waste of time? It doesn’t report any SMART issues, no relocated sector count or uncorrectable sectors, etc. Reports drive is still fine, but does show 85% health. Thought I’d mention.

Running latest Plex version. Server is very powerful : Ryzen 9 3900z, 64 gigs DDR4 PC3600, P2000 for transcoding, Platinum PSU, 32 gig Ram Drive for transcoding on a Win10 machine with symmetrical Fiber internet (1000/1000). I’ve often had 20 streams with server constantly under 30% utilized and using under 10% of available bandwidth and it still happens… Any ideas what to look into? Thanks.

Anyone???

Super helpful. Thanks.

Hey @SecurityPlus, sorry that I can’t help you. Sounds like your system should be able to handle that without any issues. The odds of getting help is higher if you include version number of PMS and Players. Logs and database could be helpful as well.

A thing you could try for troubleshooting is whenever you notice these issues on your FireCube TV, what would happen if you started another stream from you laptop? Maybe that could help to see if the issue is connected to overloaded network, transcoding or a specific player.

Good luck.

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