e30andrew

Good morning, I hope this thread is the right place to ask this type of Plex setup question; but if not, any direction where to post it would be great. I have a question about the pathing for my transcoding directory. If you take a look at the attached images, you can see parts of my setup. I have a mirrored pair of 2TB drives for my cache pool, which handles Dockers, Temporary Torrents, Docker App Data, and until recently, Transcoding. I decided that I wanted to take some of the load off of these drives, so I threw in an old samsung SSD to setup for transcoding only. To make sure it was only used for transcoding, I used the Unassigned Devices plugin to mount it outside of the array and cache pool. If you look at my Paths.jpg attachment, you can see my PlexMediaServer docker settings, Server Settings, and the paths that WinSCP shows. I believe I have them all set correctly, but I have doubts because I have never seen a file written to the SSD drive. This SSD drive has remained at the same 153mb used since I first set it up, and I have never seen a file written to it, even when trying to run 6 or 7 streams at once and forcing them to transcode. It feels like the transcode is being written to some default location on my array or cache drives. So if you have made it this far, I appreciate you taking the time to read this post and if you have any suggestions or advice, or see something that doesn't look setup correctly, that would be great. Also, is there a way or a log somewhere that shows exactly where it is writing temporary transcode files? edit: I also noticed when making this post that my paths on the PlexServer site might be wrong. If the container path for media is /data, and my movies are mapped to /data/movies, then it would make sense that the container path for /transcode should point to /transcode/transcode, instead of /ssdTranscoding/transcode. So I made that change and tested it this morning but still no luck. I can get up to 9 streams before hitting the buffer, but I am still not seeing any writing to the ssd.