rsutter Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 I wanted to add a cache drive to my NAS but I realized that the mother board has only 4 SATA ports. I wonder if anyone has ever used an external SSD USB 3.0 drive for a cache? Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 That's a very bad idea, I'm afraid. USB 3 is fast enough to be useful but not nearly reliable enough. Of course, you can try it for yourself, if you want, but a better solution would be a SATA controller on a PCIe card, if you have a spare slot. Two-port ASMedia-based ones are not expensive. Quote Link to comment
rsutter Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 OK, I FINALLY got a 500gb SSD attached in my NAS and it is now assigned as a cache drive. The next thing I did was to change the SHARE Settings for the appdata, system and docs to have the USE CACHE Pool set to PREFER and SELECT CACHE POOL to Cache SMB Security Settings Export: Yes (Hidden) and SECURITY to Private. Because I did this, I assume my mappings for PLEX is all skewed because appdata, system and docs are on cache. Any suggestions? I will continue to read forum posts that might have similar issues. Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, rsutter said: I assume my mappings for PLEX is all skewed because appdata, system and docs are on cache. If the containers in question expect their appdata path to be /mnt/user/appdata/<container-name> then it will be fine. That's the default because it works whether you have a cache or not. If you had changed it to something like /mnt/disk1/appdata/<container-name> then you'll need to change it back. Edited April 16, 2021 by John_M Typo Quote Link to comment
rsutter Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 This is what the path is: /mnt/cache/appdata/plex /tv/mnt/user/TV/ /config/mnt/cache/appdata/plex /Movies/mnt/user/Movies/ /ConvertedMusic/mnt/user/ConvertedMusic/ /Photos/mnt/user/Photos/ /Docs/mnt/user/Docs I map this through the docker edit mode by clicking on the Host Path and creating the link. When I try to connect to the Plex WebUI, the connection is refused. Quote Link to comment
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