For anyone who might find this here’s a possible solution. I wanted to keep RAM transcoding for day to day stuff but still wanted downloads to work properly. Since downloads REQUIRE you to have as much free space as the file you are copying, I decided a downloads share on my cache drive was ok.
Here’s the config for my Unraid Docker container of Plex-
Transcode configuration:
Downloads configuration:
Advanced Transcoding configuraiton:
