Server Version#:Working on new build Player Version#: Im rebuilding my Plex environment (been up and running for a long time, just a fresh start). I got a Nas and was wondering where my m.2 drive would give me the most benefit. should I, set it up as a cache drive or primary drive and install plex…

Create the M.2-based DataVol App Center → Plex Media Server → Migrate to → (new datavol) QTS will move PMS to that M.2 At this point, to save undue wear and tear on the SSD, a scratch HDD directory somewhere for the transcoder temp (you don’t need SSD speed for that) is usually best practic…

@ChuckPa , can I ask another question about this setup? What is best practice for Raid configuration with Plex? I’m not overly concerned with losing data, just want to try and keep it. losing files takes a while to replace in the long run.

I have RAID 6 (allows for 2 drives to fail). RAID 5 tolerates 1 drive failure The speed of reading the data is trivial compared with protecting it (retention). I have both RAID 6 (for what’s live) and then the (proper) full mirror backup on HDDs which are turned off until it’s time for the mon…

Just have good back ups, Raid is not for back ups, it is for uptime. Most people could do without raid, better to spend the money on backup hard drives. If anything maybe mirror 2 drives for the actual server folder then unraided drives for the movie data, back up those drives.

@therec Skwor01 expresses it well. Most don’t need RAID Backups are more important. Those of us with hundreds of TB… :see_no_evil: That’s when RAID really helps. :rofl:

100s … :face_with_spiral_eyes:

Thank you all, Im sitting around 14TB, time to rethink my strategy… and buy more hard drives. lol

root@apollo:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 26G 4.6M 26G 1% /run /dev/md0p1 464G 49G 415G 11% / tmpfs 126G 0 126G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 192G 2.9G 190G 2% /ramdisk /dev/…

Unless you are like @ChuckPa with large data pools usually a back up will restore you quicker than rebuilding a raid drive. It is also safer as you do not have the risk of the raid failing on a restore. (though I guess ZFS has less issues like that, just never used ZFS so no idea.)

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DO NOT USE THE QNAP MEDIA FOLDER FOR ANYTHING.

And spend some time understanding the proper file naming convention. I recommend FileBot

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