January 23, 20188 yr Basically at present I run my plex media server and torrents fully off my cache. As a result I have massive writes to the drive. I dont want my cache to burn out too quickly if I can help it. I am toying with the idea of putting another unassigned SSD into my unraid server for just transcodes from plex and possibly another one for my torrents. Before I plow ahead with this plan I'm just curious if anyone else has better solutions to this issue?
January 23, 20188 yr People have had luck with ram disks for the transcoding cache...I've not done it, but try searching on that...if you have enough ram it could really help the drives and speed of transcoding.
January 24, 20188 yr Author yea i did look into it alright. I have 16gb which tbh I doubt is enough. although im not sure how much would be required for transcoding.... I imagine ill upgrade to ryzen in the future and take this route but atm im prob just gonna have to go with the above plan.
January 25, 20188 yr I only have 16GB on my Xeon and it does just fine. I think when I checked out what I was trans-coding by looking at /tmp/ I only saw 4meg chunks being written and erased.
January 25, 20188 yr I have my Windows VM with Plex server running on a dual-SDD Cache drive with the Plex metadata on it's own virtual drive which is nearing 100GB in size. It uses another SSD strictly to hold the sync'ed/transcoded media and all three drives still have over 90% life remaining after 1+ years of use. It may not be an issue.
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