VisualHudson

As posted in my thread here I have had basically this exact problem, but now I'm panicking because I want to get all of my old libraries, settings, etc. I have downloaded and installed the new nvidia driver from Community Applications. I have removed the old Unraid Nvidia plugin. I think I now need to re-download and install a new Plex docker, but how can I go about that whilst also bringing back all of my old libraries, settings, etc? Also I see that there are TWO binhex Plex dockers, one with and one with "plexpass" in the title. I do have Plex Pass, but I'm not sure that my previous docker had Plex Pass in the title. Does that matter? Edit: I think I've fixed the problem... This one of the comments in this reddit thread suggested going to Apps > Previously Installed > Install Plex from there and it should bring back app the same mappings. It did! I then used instructions in the 2nd post of this thread on the Unraid forums to add "Key: 'NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES' and as Value: 'all':" before re-installing that Plex docker. I've checked that Hardware Transcoding is turned on in Plex. I've checked in Plex that it is successfully doing hardware transcoding, and I've also checked through "watch nvidia-smi". All seems to be working and exactly as it was! Plex Web interface does look a little weird and different to what I'm used to. It's now got ALOT more of a bluey background, and seems to have merged On Deck with Continue Watching? But I'm guessing that this is another new Plex layout and nothing to do with anything else, not that I'm particularly bothered as I use PMP on my PC & laptop. Still not sure whether I got the docker with or without "plexpass" in the title, but it doesn't seem to be causing any problems either way....

As the title says, I've just updated Unraid for the first time in a couple of years from 6.9.something to 6.10.0-rc4. As I was going through Unraid, I noticed that the Plex docker was not running. I tried manually starting it, but was getting a "execution error - bad parameter" message pop up. I saw there was an option to Force Update, even though it did say it was already up-to-date, so I tried that. The update failed and then completely removed Plex from my list of dockers. I'm not sure if this error was because I still had / have the Unraid Nvidia plugin installed which I know is not depreciated, however I didn't want to get rid of it until I figured out how to do it and how to make sure that Plex was still using the GPU. So now I'm panicking because I've completely lost Plex and have no idea what to do. I really hope that I will not have lost all of my settings and everything else I've spent the last few years getting just how I want it! Please can someone help, what can I do? Edit: So this thread seems to be very similar to the situation I have just had. I have downloaded and installed the new nvidia driver from Community Applications. I have removed the old Unraid Nvidia plugin. I think I now need to re-download and install a new Plex docker, but how can I go about that whilst also bringing back all of my old libraries, settings, etc? Also I see that there are TWO binhex Plex dockers, one with and one with "plexpass" in the title. I do have Plex Pass, but I'm not sure that my previous docker had Plex Pass in the title. Does that matter? Edit 2: I think I've fixed the problem... This one of the comments in this reddit thread suggested going to Apps > Previously Installed > Install Plex from there and it should bring back app the same mappings. It did! I then used instructions in the 2nd post of this thread on the Unraid forums to add "Key: 'NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES' and as Value: 'all':" before re-installing that Plex docker. I've checked that Hardware Transcoding is turned on in Plex. I've checked in Plex that it is successfully doing hardware transcoding, and I've also checked through "watch nvidia-smi". All seems to be working and exactly as it was! Plex Web interface does look a little weird and different to what I'm used to. It's now got ALOT more of a bluey background, and seems to have merged On Deck with Continue Watching? But I'm guessing that this is another new Plex layout and nothing to do with anything else, not that I'm particularly bothered as I use PMP on my PC & laptop. Still not sure whether I got the docker with or without "plexpass" in the title, but it doesn't seem to be causing any problems either way....

I have updated Unraid and rebooted and the 'Array' status has cleared, it is now allowing me to mount the drives! They were neither removed or part of the array at any time, they have been sat as unassigned drives since I set up the server, so I'm not sure why that status was showing up. EDIT: Ignore me, I've got it working! Thank you

I have been out of the Unraid game for a little while, had everything up and running for the last year or so and now it's coming time to me to decide what to do with these four unassigned drives I have in my server. However I cannot for the life of me figure out how to mount them and access them via Windows? When I look at tutorials on YouTube / Google / Reddit / etc it shows that there should be an Auto-Mount and Share toggle switch on the right hand side, but it's not there? I can't see anything in the Settings when I click on the little gear icon.If I click on the three letter Device codes on the left hand side, I can't see anything there. I'm sure this is a very simple fix, so please can someone point me in the right direction?

I do have an Intel CPU with an iGPU but as it's only a 3770K I'm using a P2000 for hardware transcoding / encoding in Plex, so I suppose I can forgo that first paragraph. I don't know why that disk share had suddenly become a thing. It definitely wasn't there earlier. But okay cool, I've found it and set it to "Private" and "Yes (Hidden)" now so other people won't be able to access it at all and I won't be able to see it, but if need be I can still access it. Thanks for all of your help today man, very much appreciated!!

Okay yeah I see that you mean within the DVR settings in Plex itself. See I'm a little bit hesitant with trying to get Plex to cut out commercials. It never did a very good job whenever I tried it in the past on my previous Windows set up. It is certainly a very interesting idea that I think I'd like to try. To edit the 'go' file I assume I'd just have to view the flash drive as a share in Windows, go to config, then open and edit the file using notepad then just save it. Right? Would I need to include: #Setup drivers for hardware transcoding in Plex modprobe i915 sleep 4 chown -R nobody:users /dev/dri chmod -R 777 /dev/dri I assume that is for something else as it's not what you have previously told me to do? You wouldn't have an idea about why that cache drive is showing up as a share, would you? And yeah I'm aware that we're very very off topic now, but I do very much appreciate having you here to help me today and so quick with your responses too. If I could show you my gratitude I would!! It's very nice to have someone a lot more knowledgeable than I helping me to get along and learn this whole new world of Unraid haha

I do have Plex DVR set up through a HD HomeRun Quatro that's connected elsewhere within the network. I do not understand what you mean by "enter those lines in the 'go' file" (what "go" file and how?) and where would I then set "Convert Video While Recording" to Transcode? Although, to be fair, it's not very often we use Plex DVR to actually record, mainly just use it for Live TV. It's usually easier to source from elsewhere than to record, cut the commercials, and then re-encode down to a decent file size, etc. Also, I was going to open a separate thread but maybe you can help me with this, since doing all of what we've discussed today I'm now getting a share show up in Windows called "cache" which appears to me as though the cache drive has for some reason now become it's own share? All of the folders within / shares on the cache drive (ie domain, appdata, system) are all set to "Yes (Hidden)" so none of them should be visible, and they're not when you open the IP in explorer and view the possible shares, but if you open the cache folder there they are. If you can understand what I mean? This definitely wasn't there earlier. How I hide it again?

Is what I would have to copy and paste into terminal to achieve the same result as you? You do mention it could become an issue with multiple simultaneous transcodes. Do you not ever have more than one transcode at a time? Have you never experienced what happens if you reach your limit?

Are you talking about having the transcode set to /tmp? That's currently how I've got my Plex Docker set up.

I should maybe point out that whenever I previously said array, I did mean a share that is using a SSD for a cache. But okay, I think I understand all what's going on now. Whilst I've got you guys here, is it possible to get your assistance in using setting up to use some of the 32GB of RAM on my server as a RAM disk? And this might be totally wrong, but could that RAM disk maybe be pooled with the SSD cache?

Okay I can understand that. But it seems almost like my 5GbE is wasted if it's only going to transfer at such slow speeds. It's not often I'm going to be transferring the same file more than once? So I've just done some further testing. I had a MKV I ripped a week ago on my NVME boot drive on Windows. I copied that across using 5GbE to the array and it went across first time at approximately 335MB/s. I deleted it from the array. I copied it across to the HDD on Windows, then copied it across to the array and it went at approximately 335MB/s again. But then, as before, I transferred another movie that was saved on the HDD to the array and it would transfer again at the slow speeds. I then copied 2 different movies from the HDD to the NVME boot drive and copied them across to the array for the first time and they both went over at the much higher speed. So basically any time I copy something off the HDD to the array, atleast for the first time, it's going to transfer at a much slower rate. Now I understand the HDD is the bottleneck and being a WD Black 2TB (and an old one at that) it has read and write speeds around 150MB/s but we on average seem to be getting speeds quite a bit below that approximate 150MB/s figure. But I guess that can be attributed to the fact it's an "up to" figure and because the drive is quite full it's naturally going to be slower?

Okay so... Is that normal? what can I do about that? How do I get around it?

I understand the HDD would be a bottleneck. But it wouldn't explain why the first time I transfer a file it goes across slowly, but the 2nd time I transfer the exact same file it goes across at the kind of speed you would expect. At the slower speed it's not much / if any better than just using 1GbE.

When transferring from Windows to the Unraid share the source was a HDD and the destination is a HDD array which has an SSD cache. If that makes sense? I would be interested to setup RAM disk to RAM disk as the Windows PC has 128GB of RAM and the Unraid server has 32GB of RAM, but I'm not sure how to set that up on the Unraid side of things and thought that might have been something to do after I've got all this 5GbE business working as it should.

Okay so this is a good example of where, as I said, I might have got something wrong. So I've just gone back to SpaceInvaderOne's video and at 10:30 he puts the Unraid server as 192.168.11.199. Then at 16:49 he sets setting in Windows to be 192.168.11.197 Clearly I was not paying enough attention both auditory and visually as I thought he put .199 for both. So I've just gone in to the 5GbE adapter properties on Windows and changed that to 192.168.2.12 and you know what... that appears to have worked! haha Atleast to an extent. I can add a network share, it asks me to log in, I can then map the share to a drive letter and access my files as you would expect. However some quick tests I've just done copying a movie from Unraid to Windows via 1GbE and then via 5GbE, then copying a movie from Windows to Unraid by 5GbE then via 1GbE all seem to get very similar results of approximately high 80s - 110ish MB/s. But then it gets werider. If I copy say Movie A from Windows to Unraid using 5GbE it'll transfer at the above approximate speed. I then delete Movie A. I then copy Movie A again, the 2nd time it will transfer at 335MB/s. If I delete and copy across again, Movie A will again transfer at about 335MB/s. But then if I go to copy across Movie B, the transfer speed drops back down again to appoximately 90 - 110MB/s. What gives with that?