Plex Media Server slow, unresponsive, buffering constantly suddently. "transcoder failed to start"

Hi all,

First issue was a constant error message, “transcoder failed to start”. I restarted my computer and it SEEMED to of fixed the issue. Since then, plex is slow, downright unresponsive, files take forever to start, then buffer constantly.

this happened on multiple drives, after multiple restarts, with multiple files.
on multiple players and on different networks.

running latest plex pass release the whole time

logs attached. any help would be amazing, I can’t figure it out

is there any easy way to see if this is harddrive related? im thinking one of my drives might be dying?