I see you can have multiple folders per library. How do you specify the order as far as adding/writing content from the DVR? I’m thinking of adding a special SSD storage array for recording multiple programs at the same time or any other task that requires fast disk I/O. Once recorded (SSD based - TV Shows new) and viewed if I wanted to retain the program I would move it to my standard folder (HD based – TV Shows) used to hold all the programs available to play.
If you like throwing money out the window then go for it!
An u array of SSD’s. - really?
Recording a TV show to an SSD will not happen any faster than recording to a hard drive!
I would suggest mechanical drives for recording as this is a proven standard for surveillance/DVR systems which are constantly overwriting data. If you want a better mechanical for this purpose get the WD Purple which are made for DVR/PVR applications.
Striping SSD’s will get costly quick and remember that SSD’s have a overwrite lifetime/limitation.
Mechanical drives can be defragged… SSD’s cannot.
I use an SSD for my OS and everything else goes on a raid 10 of mech drives.
(I even placed my Temp recorder folder on the raid.)
I’m a newbie and learning but recording 6 cable TV HD programs I believe are 1080i (some could be 720p) from my (2) HDHomeruns Primes (6 tuners) crashed PMS and corrupted the external usb 3.0 WD Mybook I’m using. As I researched it seems the best you can hope for from a stand alone HDD (7200 rpm) in large sequential writes is maybe 50 MB/s more likely far less. I read each uncompressed 1080 stream based on bit and frame rates can demand 95-237 MB/s which makes no sense because I have recorded 2 programs at the same time previously when I had one HDHomerun Prime. I’m guessing my cable company (Spectrum/Brighthouse) compresses the video so I have no idea what the true demand is but I need to support 6 streams. Current plan is SSHD (2tb FireCudas) hybrid drives ($90 each) in raid 0 that can push 400 MB/s which my understanding is the realistic limitation of USB 3.0. Would like to use these as “cache” and if I want to save the recording long term move it to larger more reliable 8-10 TB standard HDDs that are backed up regularly. I know I can specify two paths per library one to my “cache” drives and one to my “long term” drives. Hoping if I put the “cache” drives first it will default to recording on them. Then when I move recordings to long term drives you won’t even know the difference.
Not sure which clients require trans-coding when as it seems very complicated. I have a mix of Roku-3, NVidia Shield Pro, XBox One, Playstation 4 and Windows PCs (pmp) and I hope several will just use DirectPlay. To handle it I’m building an AMD Ryzen 7 1700 8 core server (16,000 passmarks) which should handle (8) 1080 streams at 2,000 passmarks per stream with a Samsung 960 EVO m2 ssd for the OS and PMS. I was considering a Synology 1817+ but since it’s only quad core at 2.4ghz for about the same cost I assume this server will be more capable with twice the cores and faster cpu clock rate which can be overclocked to around 4ghz. If the 1GB intel onboard NIC becomes an issue I will add an Intel 10GB x 2 card.
Feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
It looks like people are getting stuck on the whole SSD scenario or bandwidth of an HDD and failed to answer the original question. If I have 2 folders in a library, which one will the DVR function of Plex store to? I’m assuming the first one in the list.
It appears that this question has already been answered in this post. For reference here is a screenshot of what my TV Shows Library folder selection looks like when I record a show. My Plex server is on a Linux machine so the folder structure in the drop-down list reflects that.
