vonbankfamily09 Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 (edited) Hello I have attempted to build a Plex unraid server for my home a few years ago. I started it up and attempted to config it and use it to store a few movies/TV shows on it. Things got in the way and it was place on the back burner. I am getting back to it due to the fact that I may be moving for work outside of the country and can't take all the movies my family owns with us. I am not a tech savvy person. I built this thing by watching videos and it did work. I gust don't think all the settings are right or I am placing the content in the right way. What's the best way to copy movies/TV shows to work with Plex? What's the best way to organize them within unraid? I will provide spec of server below. I also downloaded the diagnostics like I was informed to do by another user but don't see that it downloaded as a zip file. M/B: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Gaming B8-CF Version x.x - s/n: Default string BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. Version F6. Dated: 04/24/2017 CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-7100 CPU @ 3.90GHz HVM: Enabled IOMMU: Enabled Cache: 128 KiB, 512 KiB, 3 MB Memory: 8 GiB DDR4 (max. installable capacity 64 GiB) Network: bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500 eth0: 1000 Mbps, full duplex, mtu 1500 Kernel: Linux 5.10.28-Unraid x86_64 OpenSSL: 1.1.1j I have 3 6TB drives and 1 SSD 500GB I only plain to run plex for 1 or 2(rarely 2) movies at a time. Like to store full quality movies reg dvd & Blu ray. Not looking to do much else at this time. Thanks for your help Pete Edited June 13, 2023 by trurl delete lots of attached files that should have been a single zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 33 minutes ago, vonbankfamily09 said: I also downloaded the diagnostics like I was informed to do by another user but don't see that it downloaded as a zip file. Try again. Nobody is going to go to the trouble of downloading all those separate files. Quote Link to comment
vonbankfamily09 Posted June 13, 2023 Author Share Posted June 13, 2023 Hopefully this is the correct zip tower-diagnostics-20230613-1559.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Your shares and their settings look good, except I question whether or not the "downloads" share should be cache:prefer. That setting is going to try to keep its files on cache, and if any overflow to the array, they will be moved back to cache. Usually I would expect cache:yes for a share by that name, but if it is strictly a temporary destination for files that get moved to other shares by 'arrs then that makes sense. Quote Link to comment
vonbankfamily09 Posted June 14, 2023 Author Share Posted June 14, 2023 53 minutes ago, trurl said: our shares and their settings look good, except I question whether or not the "downloads" share should be cache:prefer. That setting is going to try to keep its files on cache, and if any overflow to the array, they will be moved back to cache. Usually I would expect cache:yes for a share by that name, but if it is strictly a temporary destination for files that get moved to other shares by 'arrs then that makes sense. The plan was to download movies/TV shows with MKV to the cache then once downloaded mover would place it I the right spot that's needed. I can change the prefer to yes if you think that would be better. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 59 minutes ago, vonbankfamily09 said: The plan was to download movies/TV shows with MKV to the cache then once downloaded mover would place it I the right spot that's needed. I can change the prefer to yes if you think that would be better. As long as after download the files get moved to a share that is set to Yes then I would leave the setting for the downloads share as Prefer for performance reasons. The only other thing to watch out for is to make sure the Minimum Free Space setting for the pool is set to something sensible to avoid ever accidentally over-filling the pool as if it gets completely full this can cause problems. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 1 hour ago, vonbankfamily09 said: to the cache then once downloaded mover would place it I the right spot that's needed Mover won't move it to another share. It will just move it from cache to array for cache:yes shares, and from array to cache for cache:prefer shares. That's why I wondered if you had some other application such as 'arrs that would be moving your downloads to another share. So, with that share cache:prefer, mover will NOT move it to the array. That setting moves TO cache if any are on the array. To get the files for a share moved from cache to array, it must be set cache:yes Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 You should also set Minimum Free for your cache pool similar to what you have done for your user shares. If the pool gets below Minimum, cache:prefer and cache:yes shares will overflow to the array. Quote Link to comment
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