And yes, I have a functioning “Plex Cloud Setup” running on Amazon Cloud Drive that I built myself instead of waiting for an invite (never applied)… Works great!
That’s quite interesting to see how different is the usage of each of one. Has anyone more than 100TB storage or is the critical limit ?
@lezardon said:
That’s quite interesting to see how different is the usage of each of one. Has anyone more than 100TB storage or is the critical limit ?
Problem with running 100TB is that it is heavy investment, both upfront and upkeep.
Slowly ripping my CDs into Plex…
Here’s mine.
@cayars was waiting for you to pitch in… 
@lezardon said:
That’s quite interesting to see how different is the usage of each of one. Has anyone more than 100TB storage or is the critical limit ?
No storage limits of media. The thing you’ll have to watch is the size of your meta-data directories. For example if you use the thumbnail generation feature it can grow quite large so you need to plan accordingly for it if you want a large system. You’ll also want this meta-data stored on an SSD to keep Plex running fast. If possible use SSD for your transcoding directory as well.
@GoingGaGa said:
@cayars was waiting for you to pitch in…
Just noticed the thread
No storage limits of media. The thing you’ll have to watch is the size of your meta-data directories. For example if you use the thumbnail generation feature it can grow quite large so you need to plan accordingly for it if you want a large system. You’ll also want this meta-data stored on an SSD to keep Plex running fast. If possible use SSD for your transcoding directory as well.
Thank you for the advice. i have a SSD sleeping in a drawer and a 1 free slot in my NAS. How can you move the metadata without loosing all my tags and others ? What is the recommended size for a SSD ?
I would not put the SSD in the NAS unless you are running Plex on the NAS itself. If you run Plex on a PC put the SSD in the PC. In other words put the SSD in the same device that IS RUNNING Plex for fast access.
If you look at my signature you can see the size of my library. I’m currently using 572 GB of Plex-Meta data. It’s large because I use the “video preview thumbnails” option (advanced in each library setting).
- Once you install the SSD and have it formatted you can shutdown Plex and COPY the current meta-data directory to the SSD.
- Once copy is done (might take a while) restart Plex.
- Go into server options under the GENERAL tab and change the setting “The path where local application data is stored”. It will be pointed to the old location. Just change it to the SSD directory you just copied. If something goes wrong you can point it back to the old location.
- Restart Plex to make sure it loads meta-data from new location.
BTW, once the SSD is installed in Server option edit “Transcoder temporary directory” on the TRANSCODER tab and point it to a new directory you created on the SSD to store temporary transcodes.
PS my SSD is 1GB in size but a 512MB size should work just fine for most people using thumbnail previews.
My media is spread across two RAID1 arrays with “Anime” and “Anime Films” on a 3TB array, and the rest of the media on a 5TB array.
I’m quickly running out of space, but I’m at the point where higher capacity drives are very expensive (for me anyway).
Thanks for the guidance Cayars. Yes, my Plex server is runnning on my Synology.
Strangly I cannot find the “The path where local application data is stored” in the General Tab or in any other tabs. did I missed something ?
Another question: do you think that I can store the Plex metada folder on an external SSD drive ? I have only 12 slots for HDDs. I would not want to use one only for this purpose.
6500 movies and 2000ish complete tv shows (lots of episodes) with 600ish complete anime shows. complete total hard drive space totals just under 200 Tb.
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@lezardon said:
Thanks for the guidance Cayars. Yes, my Plex server is runnning on my Synology.
Strangly I cannot find the “The path where local application data is stored” in the General Tab or in any other tabs. did I missed something ?
Another question: do you think that I can store the Plex metada folder on an external SSD drive ? I have only 12 slots for HDDs. I would not want to use one only for this purpose.
Sorry forgot to mention once inside server settings click the “Show Advanced” button on the right hand side up top. Then click the GENERAL tab and you should see it.
Personally I wouldn’t store Plex Meta-Data on an external drive. Install the SSD internal and if needed attach another drive for normal storage external. Much safer this way.
12 Slots is a lot. What size drives are you using?
@cayars said:
Sorry forgot to mention once inside server settings click the “Show Advanced” button on the right hand side up top. Then click the GENERAL tab and you should see it.
It is really strange because I don’t have this option. See my screenshot.
12 Slots is a lot. What size drives are you using?
I’m using a mix of 3TB and 6TB but the point is that I lose 2 slots because of RAID6. Then only 10 slots remaining. Most of them already in use. Anyway, if I find the correct option in the prefs, I will try for a short period to see the benefits in term of performances. Thanks cayars.
@SolidSnke said:
6500 movies and 2000ish complete tv shows (lots of episodes) with 600ish complete anime shows. complete total hard drive space totals just under 200 Tb.
200TB ? Amazing ! What equipment do you use to store so many data ?
@lezardon said:
@cayars said:
Sorry forgot to mention once inside server settings click the “Show Advanced” button on the right hand side up top. Then click the GENERAL tab and you should see it.It is really strange because I don’t have this option. See my screenshot.
12 Slots is a lot. What size drives are you using?
I’m using a mix of 3TB and 6TB but the point is that I lose 2 slots because of RAID6. Then only 10 slots remaining. Most of them already in use. Anyway, if I find the correct option in the prefs, I will try for a short period to see the benefits in term of performances. Thanks cayars.
Lets not side track this post on library size BUT
For the price of 2 big hard drives you can buy a I7 NUC and use that as your server only. That’s what I did and I now have 5x the power of the NAS …
Lets not side track this post on library size BUT
For the price of 2 big hard drives you can buy a I7 NUC and use that as your server only. That’s what I did and I now have 5x the power of the NAS …
Well, it is not a question of power, but a question of access speed. My quadcore NAS is strong enough. But if I can speed the scrolling in PLEX, it can be good.
Beside of that, I have already a mac mini I7 connected to my TV, but I prefer to have the PLEX server on my NAS for several reasons (e.g.: if I download a movie, it will be automatically tagged. The Plex DB is automatically maintained and cleaned during the night without manual action. And my medias are available outside 24/7.That’s is pretty comfortable). With my current configuration I even can read HEVC 10 bits without issues.
@lezardon said:
Lets not side track this post on library size BUT
For the price of 2 big hard drives you can buy a I7 NUC and use that as your server only. That’s what I did and I now have 5x the power of the NAS …
Well, it is not a question of power, but a question of access speed. My quadcore NAS is strong enough. But if I can speed the scrolling in PLEX, it can be good.
Beside of that, I have already a mac mini I7 connected to my TV, but I prefer to have the PLEX server on my NAS for several reasons (e.g.: if I download a movie, it will be automatically tagged. The Plex DB is automatically maintained and cleaned during the night without manual action. And my medias are available outside 24/7.That’s is pretty comfortable). With my current configuration I even can read HEVC 10 bits without issues.
I have the same NAS processor - no comparison to the speed of the NUC - and I can do all what you do and serve 7 remotes ( most so far).
If your mini is used only as a client that is a waste.
Have some fun - put PMS on the mac mini and see how things work.
Now back to the OP
