# Extremely poor general performance on unraid

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/extremely-poor-general-performance-on-unraid/807456>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux, server-docker, server-unraid, apple-tv, roku\
**Created:** [August 26, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/extremely-poor-general-performance-on-unraid/807456 "2022-08-26T14:24:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JohnJacobjingleHimerSmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@JohnJacobjingleHimerSmith](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JohnJacobjingleHimerSmith)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/extremely-poor-general-performance-on-unraid/807456/1 "2022-08-26T14:24:37Z")

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It’s taking forever for my media library to load when opening plex on a Roku ultra 2022 or apple tv 4k 2021.

Everything is 1Gb lan hardline. I avoid wireless as much as possible.

My server specs are: Ryzen 9 3900x - 4x 32Gb 2666MHz unbuffered Crucial - the database runs on a WD Black SN850 500GB NVMe WDS500G1X0E.

My transcoding is done on an Nvidia 1660.

I’m going to switch it off the WD to two TEAM MP34 1TB drives in a Stripe, but the parts don’t arrive until Saturday.

So some reason when I open plex on the Roku the libraries take forever to load, if they load at all. Sometimes Plex tells me that it was unable to connect and I have to try multiple times.

I’m also having playback issues where sometimes I get stuttering on direct play.

I’m run tests and checked SMART stats and I have no hardware faults that I can find.

My Plex DB is 113MB in size, so I am unable to load it here.  
[https://easyupload.io/swpnod](https://easyupload.io/swpnod)

As a comparative, I loaded and setup Jellyfin and it is not having any of the performance issues that I am having with Plex.

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**Author:** ![JohnJacobjingleHimerSmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@JohnJacobjingleHimerSmith](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JohnJacobjingleHimerSmith)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/extremely-poor-general-performance-on-unraid/807456/2 "2022-08-28T17:41:09Z")

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For anyone reading this: I was using the unraid container by hotio, as soon as I switched to binhex, the performance improved to only a minor delay.

I’ve installed a second nvme disk and have configured them in a stripe. At this point, the database is only bottlenecked by the CPU. I used two TEAM p34 nvme drives, for the price point they have the best possible TBW (2TB) and a pretty high performance point.

This has become my go-to nvme drive in multiple systems.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/extremely-poor-general-performance-on-unraid/807456/3 "2022-11-26T17:41:53Z")

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