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May seem like a dumb question but I am new to unraid. Not new to plex. When I downloaded your version of plex-server its states it the same version (1.32.5.7349) as the official release. I thought folks were downloading yours to get the "latest" release of plex-server? Is that correct or am I misunderstanding something?

When you are playing the movie what is your CPU doing? If you are not HW transcoding I would expect your CPU to be pegged 100%. Also if you go into your dashboard when you are playing the movie does it say direct play? Or does it show it converting it to a different format?

New user to unraid. I have been using proxmox and had plex-server setup on unbuntu on a LXC. That all worked fine except proxmox was unstable using a I9 13900 CPU. Always crashed when things went Idle. So I am trying out unraid. So far so good. I got plex-server installed and iGPU passthrough enabled. I have it setup to transcode using RAM. HW transcode seems to work as expected. However I am seeing some odd behavior with the plex-server dashboard. If I direct play a movie nothing shows up in the dashboard as being played. If I force a transcode by selecting a lower quality video after the movie starts then the movie shows up in the dashboard. Any Ideas? Clearly the video is streaming but nothing shows up.

Formatted my 2TB drive to BTFRS and am getting 233MB sustained write speeds over SMB. So that answers that. I'm not used to the GUI way of doing things so the 30 day trial is really nice. Thank you for that! I got plex setup and got the iGPU to HW transcode seems to work good. I notice something weird though that maybe I need to go ask in a plex section. If I direct play a video then it doesn't show up in the plex dash board as being played. If I choose a different resolution to force a HW transcode it shows up in the dashboard. Some weird quirkiness that did not occur in the standard linux release.

I am not using RAID just single drives formatted in ext4 the exos drives I am getting up to 250MB with 210MB sustained write speeds. I do have a slower drive that I am only getting 150MB its an older drive 2TB. I think the EXOS are rated for 287MB if that slowed down to 140MB then that would be a no go for me. I'll need to think about it. Not against a cache pool. I have a 2TB NVME that is currently hosting proxmox that would not be needed with unraid. I also have a 2TB SSD that I use to host the plex database files. The other drives are 20TB exos drive and 20TB WD red pro drives. Do you need a separate cache drive for each disk? Would I be able to partition the SSD or NVME into multiple cache drives? If I buy another 20TB drive can I install and run without parity to try out unraid with plex/cached pool/ windows11 VM? Then after I transfer my files over turn one of the old 20TB drives into the parity drive after the fact? Also is parity required? I have a duplicate setup for a different house so the data is essentially backed up at a different location.

I'm currently not using a cache pool with proxmox. I get 220MB-250MB on 2.5Gbps connection. What should I expect to get with unraid non cached drive? I am using Exos enterprise drives. Also anyone know how well iGPU pashthrough works on plex-server? I have an I9 13900 with the i915 GPU. It works extremely well at transcoding 4k so its something I would want to continue to use. I noticed the GPU drivers where available in the "app store" Do you have to load them this way or is it possible to load the linux drivers directly from intel manually? Really just looking for gotcha or quirks I would find out only after installing and trying to get things to work. Proxmox is unstable on my system. Crashes anytime the cores go into deep power states after sitting idle for long periods of time. So looking for alternatives. Appreciate all the responses so far. Something like the following wget https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/igc-1.0.14062.11/intel-igc-core_1.0.14062.11_amd64.deb wget https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/igc-1.0.14062.11/intel-igc-opencl_1.0.14062.11_amd64.deb wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/23.22.26516.18/intel-level-zero-gpu-dbgsym_1.3.26516.18_amd64.ddeb wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/23.22.26516.18/intel-level-zero-gpu_1.3.26516.18_amd64.deb wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/23.22.26516.18/intel-opencl-icd-dbgsym_23.22.26516.18_amd64.ddeb wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/23.22.26516.18/intel-opencl-icd_23.22.26516.18_amd64.deb wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/23.22.26516.18/libigdgmm12_22.3.0_amd64.deb dpkg -i *.deb

How is Samba on unraid? I am currently getting 250MB/ps over ethernet with samba running on ubuntu.

I currently use proxmox with Ubuntu installed in a LXC running plex media server. I have windows 11 installed in a VM. I currently have my drives formatted to ext4. Reason for this is I can remove the drives stick them in a USB bay and browse the drives using another windows machine (WSL installed on windows machine). I can easily recover my data by using a different machine. I see only two different drive formats are supported with unraid. If something happens with your unraid machine how do you get the data off the drives? Say a motherboard goes bad. What if the USB stick goes bad same question. Data migration seems challenging since you are locked into a specific format. If I buy a new 20TB drive can I install unraid transfer my data via the USB method I mentioned above via Samba then add the drive back to unraid? Will unraid add the disk to the array? Non equal size is ok? Unraid seems like a nice NAS OS but to me the data migration issue presents some serious challenges to think about. You are locked in unless you have many TBs of storage elsewhere.