I am upgrading my 7 year old custom Windows 7 HTPC that currently doubles as my PMS to a Dell T30 Windows 10 box and using a 500GB SSD for my OS, a 1TB drive for Plex DVR content and keeping my current NAS with all of my personal content.
Would it be a good idea to have Plex use the SSD for things like transcoding since it’s faster drive than the 1TB one? If so, would that just be a setting to make sure the “PlexTrans” folder stays on C:? What other components of PMS might be beneficial to stay on the faster SSD?
Is the registry export from Windows 7 that is needed to back up my current configuration able to be imported into Windows 10 without issue?
If I have a lot of custom metadata for my movies and have changed a lot of the default posters, what folder(s) should I make sure I copy over and use in the new PMS install? Or, is that all tracked in the database that I back up when I migrate?
TIA for the help. I did a migration once from Windows 7 to Windows 7, but didn’t know if there were any gotchas from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
That sounds about right, if see a lot in there you hit the jack-pot. If you can just change the drive letter, during the install do so. I do that for production machines all the time. So OS is only on the main drive, if somethign happens you can still boot the box an get in clear it out.
If you can’t then, install and then start and stop the server service.
Copy the “PLex Media Server” driver to another drive and place a link to that drive named “Plex Media Server” in its place. PLEX will follow the link.(This know as a SOFT-LINK in other OSes).
If you give PLEX a dedicated partition then rename the directory. And create the partition WITHOUT Drive letter it will ask to here to connect to directory structure. Give it the directory name. Once done copy the containts in to that new directory. (This also know as HARD-LINK in other OSes)
Then either complete the setup from scratch, or restore the backup that makes that is on Win7.
I am a Linux user so my commands are little different but the method is the same. Note SOFT-LINKS are also great way to to mount your media in directories built to PLEX’s specs, but use a different for you own use. My naming is different and I have scripts to translate and update the links.
This SOFT-LINK trick also makes for removal of external drives safe, the link remains so PLEX does not see the removal. If you did a library scan, it would still see the “file” may report as unavailable. Helpful if you want to take your shows physically with you, but not the PLEX box… play via USB some where else.
For example a Dr Who cartoon web show.
How it is actually stored…
/plex/dsk3/doctor.who/shorts/movie/doctor.who.the.power.of.the.daleks.part.1.2016.sd480.sr16x9.rt28m10.mp4
What PLEX sees…
/plex/plex/info.movie/link/dsk3/doctor.who/shorts/Doctor Who the Power of the Daleks Part 1 (2016).mp4
