Hey everyone, just thought I'd put this up here after reading a syslog by another forum member and realizing a repeating pattern I've seen here where folks decide to let Plex create temporary files for transcoding on an array or cache device instead of in RAM.
Why should I move transcoding into RAM? What do I gain?
In short, transcoding is both CPU and IO intensive. Many write operations occur to the storage medium used for transcoding, and when using an SSD specifically, this can cause
Hey everyone, just thought I'd put this up here after reading a syslog by another forum member and realizing a repeating pattern I've seen here where folks decide to let Plex create temporary files for transcoding on an array or cache device instead of in RAM.
Why should I move transcoding into RAM? What do I gain?
In short, transcoding is both CPU and IO intensive. Many write operations occur to the storage medium used for transcoding, and when using an SSD specifically, this can cause