Hi there
I was wondering what the optimum size of class 10 sd card is suggested for RasPlex?
Can any unused local stored on the card be used as PlexSync storage, or are we looking at something just big enough to hold RasPlex itself?
Thanks
The rasplex image is currently around 1.5 GB. Thus a 2GB SD-Card would be fine and I don't see a reason why rasplex itself would get bigger than 2GB in the future.
I haven't looked into PlexSync yet and don't know if Plex Home Theater has PlexSync support builtin. If it's built in: This would be reason to auto-expand the rasplex storage partition to fit the size of the SD card. But as far as I know no one of the rasplex developers has looked into that yet.
Ok, thanks; hopefully one of the devs will investigate PlexSync at some stage when development gets into the beta stages and beyond.
Cheers
Ok, thanks; hopefully one of the devs will investigate PlexSync at some stage when development gets into the beta stages and beyond.
Cheers
We will support it when the plex linux client supports it.
I've just flashed an 8GB card with the Rasplex image, and it seems to have reduced the total capacity to 1.5 GB (~260 MB system partition + 1.29 GB storage partition).
I assume this is normal but question why it would not allocate as much space as possible to storage?
please feel free to point out why I'm being dumb here...
It is to do with the Linux file partition. I'm no expert on linux, but I know when I used XBMC on a 32gb SD card, it went down to 90Mb
The image size is currently at 1.5GB and there is currently no auto-expand functionality included. But this does not matter due to the space is just not needed.
... But this does not matter due to the space is just not needed.
Why is that so?
we are wondering about this.
Where do you put the downloaded cache?
Our cashing never seems to get finished on RasPlex. Maybe because the space is running low?
With XMBC (we tested it only short time) the used space on the sd-card was near 2GB on the storage partition. We have found recommendations for 32GB-cards for XBMC.
Our Photo Cache in the Plex-Appdata-folder on the machine running the Plex Media Server is 1,7GB.
How can that be put an a 1,3GB storage-partition?
Are there limitations for RasPlex concerning the size of the film/tv-show-collection?
Is it maybe possible and reasonable to increase the storage-size on a linux-system after installing the image?
Sorry, all this technical background is high above us and we are really confessed, but we are trying to test and optimze our Plex-Use with a Rasp. It is much too slow, so far. Allthough we use a class 10 card and took much time for cashing, scrolling up an down wildly.
Just searching for the optimal and future-proof set-up including a highest speed SD-Card with suitable size.
hey guys.... I am buying a Raspberry Pi and was just searching for some answers on what SD Card to get. So I know what I am looking for in terms of speed etc. Are you able to provide a guide on what size I need base on how many TV episodes or movies I have to be cached? thanks
hey guys.... I am buying a Raspberry Pi and was just searching for some answers on what SD Card to get. So I know what I am looking for in terms of speed etc. Are you able to provide a guide on what size I need base on how many TV episodes or movies I have to be cached? thanks
You need a Class 10, 4gb is large enough, I personally use 8gb Sandisk Extreme, works fine. Rasplex doesn't cache the media, just the posters, either size is plenty for even large libraries.
Regards
This thread is a little long in the tooth, but it seems like there have been some changes as it appears that Rasplex auto-expands to use all of your card. What size card should I use for Rasplex? If buying a new card it looks like the smallest you can get nowadays is 8GB and they are as low as $7 at some of my local shops here in Toronto and 16GB are only a dollar or so more. So if you are buying a new SD card for Rasplex then what should you get?
And if I am moving from one card to another is ther a way to facilitate the change by copying some files, like the cache, from the old card to the new?
Is there any point in getting UHS-I or UHS-II cards? Can the Pi drop from 3.3V to 1.8V? I thought I read something about 1.8V for the Model B+ so soes it matter if you have that Pi?
The elinux.org RPi page on SD cards is unclear on this. It does show test results for a few cards but who knows if that is batch dependant or if you can even buy the fastest cards listed on that page - which are: SanDisk Extreme III 2GB Class 10 (BE07054050838), Transcend SDHC 8GB Class 10 (TS8GSDHC10E) and Sony SDHC 16Gb Class 10 UHS-I "40MB/s".
[From Wikiepedia]
Cards that comply with UHS show Roman numerals 'I' or 'II' next to the SD card logo, and report this capability to the host device. Use of UHS-I requires that the host device command the card to drop from 3.3-volt to 1.8-volt operation and select the 4-bit transfer mode, while UHS-II requires 0.4-volt operation.
Personally, I use Sandisk Extreme Class 10 4GB SD and MicroSD cards on all my Pi's, no point in using anything bigger.This thread is a little long in the tooth, but it seems like there have been some changes as it appears that Rasplex auto-expands to use all of your card. What size card should I use for Rasplex? If buying a new card it looks like the smallest you can get nowadays is 8GB and they are as low as $7 at some of my local shops here in Toronto and 16GB are only a dollar or so more. So if you are buying a new SD card for Rasplex then what should you get?
And if I am moving from one card to another is ther a way to facilitate the change by copying some files, like the cache, from the old card to the new?
Is there any point in getting UHS-I or UHS-II cards? Can the Pi drop from 3.3V to 1.8V? I thought I read something about 1.8V for the Model B+ so soes it matter if you have that Pi?
The elinux.org RPi page on SD cards is unclear on this. It does show test results for a few cards but who knows if that is batch dependant or if you can even buy the fastest cards listed on that page - which are: SanDisk Extreme III 2GB Class 10 (BE07054050838), Transcend SDHC 8GB Class 10 (TS8GSDHC10E) and Sony SDHC 16Gb Class 10 UHS-I "40MB/s".
You are correct in that the current release - 0.4.1 - auto expands remaining storage.
I personally wouldn't recommended transferring any files from the old card to a newly flashed card, it only takes minutes to reconfigure through Preferences, most users skip through the initial setup pages and control pre-caching from the side menu. Admittedly pre-caching can take some time for very large libraries, but you can leave it to run on its own.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Ned already replied to most of the questions, so I’ll just fill in a little about the card speeds.
Is there any point in getting UHS-I or UHS-II cards?
Yes, I think there is. At least the UHS-I cards which I’ve used myself.
I’ve never even seen a UHS-II card, so can’t speak of them.
To fulfill the UHS specifications a card will have to have flash memory cells with an intrinsic high speed, which will exceed the basic Class10 requirements even when using traditional non-UHS access methods. And in my own use of various cards I see a definite speed improvement when going from a non-UHS Class10 card to another Class10 card that also has the UHS-I logo. But of course there are other speed declarations you can use to find superior cards. Some manufacturers even state the max read and write speed on the card’s label, to simplify model choice. (Though I wouldn’t trust speed claims on low-end cards…)
Can the Pi drop from 3.3V to 1.8V? I thought I read something about 1.8V for the Model B+ so soes it matter if you have that Pi?
I’m not sure of this, and have no B+ model to test with.
I assume that the normal B model I have uses no UHS-specific methods.
But having a high-speed card still makes a difference, and nowdays these always have the UHS-I logo.
The elinux.org RPi page on SD cards is unclear on this. It does show test results for a few cards but who knows if that is batch dependant or if you can even buy the fastest cards listed on that page - which are: SanDisk Extreme III 2GB Class 10 (BE07054050838), Transcend SDHC 8GB Class 10 (TS8GSDHC10E) and Sony SDHC 16Gb Class 10 UHS-I “40MB/s”.
A more relevant fact for us is that a fast SD card has a strong influence on fluid use of the RasPlex GUI, since it uses SD card storage for image caching and all other data that a normal computer would have on HDD.
Best regards: dlanor
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