# Plex crashing when using RAM Drive for transcoding
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashing-when-using-ram-drive-for-transcoding/766002
**Category:** Plex Media Server
**Tags:** server-windows
**Created:** [December 23, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashing-when-using-ram-drive-for-transcoding/766002 "2021-12-23T14:47:11Z")
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### Author:  [@LibTech](https://forums.plex.tv/u/LibTech)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashing-when-using-ram-drive-for-transcoding/766002/1 "2021-12-23T14:47:11Z")
I recently setup a RAM drive for the transcoding directory due to my SSD life getting chewed up by transcodes.
I found the following post by @JesterEE really helpful but I’m wondering if something’s changed with Plex’s behaviour in the more recent versions.
> [@Plex Transcoder RAM Drive Experience](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-transcoder-ram-drive-experience/228696):
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> I was experimenting with some RAM drive options for transcoding on my Plex server today and found some interesting take-aways through experimentation I wanted to share with the community. Plex does it’s own transcoding garbage collection mid-stream. Plex tries to keep at least 100 MB of free drive space at all times. The size of the RAM drive only needs to be big enough to support: The number of simultaneous streams you want to be able to transcode The amount of cached playback you want to re…
Currently running the latest (Version 1.25.2.5319) on Windows 10 with ImDisk running a 4GB RAM Drive.
What I’m seeing is as transcodes start to fill up the drive, it approaches ~50MB of free space and keeps filling until suddenly the drive is empty and the plex server has stopped running/crashed. I’m guessing there might be something wrong with the free space management that OP detailed from his findings.
Wondering if others have noted the same or have suggestions on how to fix? I’d really like to use the little bit of extra RAM I have to save on my SSD life.
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### Author:  [@LibTech](https://forums.plex.tv/u/LibTech)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashing-when-using-ram-drive-for-transcoding/766002/2 "2021-12-24T01:24:23Z")
After disabling the ram drive and getting some more crashes, this might not be related to RAM drive.
This could be a server v1.25 issue… so I’ve rolled back to v1.24 to see if it stabilizes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashing-when-using-ram-drive-for-transcoding/766002/3 "2022-03-24T01:25:07Z")
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