Unraid plex cache driver

Plex uses a lot of tiny files to organize itself, keep metadata for all your media, etc. Plex media server wont load after cache drive filled up. Hd300 through xboxone in living room, samsung hlt6189s other clients. Elan lead plex developer is aware of this thread, so it would be a great place to document all the current issues.

I have various mixed size of drives with the parity being the biggest. Im not familiar with docker, but i think if usr actually belong to host system on top which docker is runned, you should run patch on host. Unraid os pro supports up to 30 storage devices in the parityprotected array 28 data and 2 parity and up to 24 storage devices in the cache pool. Make sure the file system for the cache drive is set as you wish click on the cache drive and check file system type start the array, and let unraid format it. I may be mistaken but it seems a lot of people on this forum use both plex and unraid, so seems like a reasonable question. What is the transfer speed you get with your unraid machine.

Jan 28, 2017 this video is a tutorial about how to add a cache drive to your server. Also about how to avoid data loss for things that arent moved quickly. My 12tb library has a 5gb data folder which resides on my unraid cache drive. This video is a tutorial about how to preclear a harddrive before adding it to your array. Video producers, streamers with extensive video libraries, media editors. Unraid empowers you to build the system youve always wanted using your preferred hardware, software, and operating systems. I dont really care about transfer speed to unraid though since i usually download stuff directly to unraid machine.

My question is, would i see a performance gain via indexesui browsing since my meta data is stored on my cache drive now. Mainly was using it as a file sever, then started adding docker for plex, unifi controller and openvpn server. I thought about removing some of the ram to save money on electricity but honestly its nice not having to worry about it and that cache is awesome. The need to migrate unraid to new low powered hardware has finally arisen. The only real reason i am thinking about doing it is for that purpose, so i dont want to waste. This is my unraid nas server, plex media server, unifi controller, unifi video, pihole, and virtualization system. Plex has a memory leak as you can see in the above image but since i have 144gb it gives me plenty of wiggle room to just restart it every couple days until the issue is fixed. With our easytoinstall plex media server software and plex apps on the devices of your choosing, you can stream your video, music, and photo collections any time, anywhere, to whatever you want.

Additional storage devices can still be utilized directly with other unraid features such as virtual machines or the unassigned devices plugin. Those tiny files are murder on a spinning drive, but work really nicely on an ssd. Freenas is free and seems to have a lot of community support out there, but the ability of unraid to allow random additions of drives and simple setup it appealing as well. I know unraid wouldnt be the winner for data integrity and availability, but it looks user friendly and also looks like it could make my tower be an all in one soluion run various vms, passthrough the gpu for a gaming vm, raid with. Ive been using unraid for the last 10 years and love it so far. Also with unraid and xen now you can have features such as the ones offered in zfs to protect your critical data, it is just a matter of you willing to put the work in. Also you will learn how to upgrade or replace an existing cache drive and how to crea. There has also been talk of supporting ext4 and therefore trim on unraids cache drives, but nothing solid yet.

There is a forum thread about running unraid in a vm and that is a appropriate place to ask questions. Sep 24, 2016 then shutdown the docker container from the unraid gui. Plex just thinks its writing to a disk folder called transcode. The objective of this guide is to help you to set up limetechnologys unraid network attached storage and install plex media server and. We will be migrating from dual xeon lga 2011 2960s to a ryzen 3700x for the homelab. When data is written to a user share that has been configured to use the cache drive, all of that data is initially written directly to the dedicated cache drive. Will the cache drive work for this build or im i better off using a 2. Its primary uses will be as a nas, a plex server, and running game servers. This third part shows how to install and configure shinobi as a docker container. How to use gpu transcoding in an emby or plex container on unraid. Now that i have unraid up and running, in this post i am going to discuss how i went about adding the plex container in unraid 6.

You can filter the list using the dropdown list to make finding a particular device easier. It offers more flexibility with data sharing nfs, cifs, afp,ftp it allows for disks to be used in a pool or individually without reformatting. Help me understand volume mapping unraid posted in linux. Open an ssh session to your nas and move your plex. I am a really new to this and building a unraid system. Their ssd cache pool and automated distribution policies turn your old array of spinners into a 10gbe capable. Freenas comes with snapshots, builtin compression, encryption, deduplication and remote replication while unraid offers just disk encryption. How to add a cache drive, replace a cache drive or create a cache. Click on update driver and browse my computer for driver software. Aug 12, 2015 install the unraid nvidia plugin, download the version of unraid required containing the nvidia drivers and reboot 2. I don t really understand how the ssd cache hd is working. This is the ryzen unraid server build i have been waiting for. I previously used limetech plex docker on unraid for a while, but wanted to use the latest plex pass version so i switched to linuxserver plex. If simple features doesnt install on reboot, then youll have to telnet in and use the installpkg command, but we can cross that bridge if it doesnt work on reboot.

Change all shares that you want to exist only on your cache drive to use cache disk. Its a fairly straightforward process and didnt cause me many headaches thankfully. Ive already setup unraid 6 and have my array running. Unraid is an operating system for personal and small business use that brings enterpriseclass features letting you configure your computer systems to maximize performance and capacity using any combination of applications, vms, storage devices, and hardware. For example \\tower\movies\comedy where the comedy folder on the unraid may actually span multiple drives or, in mb3 i can map direct to drive shares \\tower\disk1\comedy. Setting up the plex container in unraid 6 luke manning. I personally learned a lot virtualizing unraid in kvm on manjarobox but the latest unraid beta v 6.

Ive really put a lot of eggs into one basket with this build but sometimes its just very convenient to have a system that can do it all. Below are the various btrfs raid configs for unraid. Sep 30, 2016 i have a situation where plex is running but the webserver is not. Backup dvds to unraid server nas for playing on tablet. Please tag with os tag like servermac or serverwindows and any other appropriate to the topic.

Here is what my default unraid web gui looks like ive got seven drives. In the past, some people have documented the process for putting the unraidspecific components on a full slackware install unraid is based on slackware, but not as of the latest version. Lime technology llc does not recommend or endorse any plugin for any particular purpose, and shall assume no responsibility for their use. Plex diffrent location for thumbnailsmetadata unraid.

The cachedrive feature of unraid provides faster data capture. The display adapter is a driver to install as well. Unraid lets you partition system resources to store and protect data, run any application, andor create virtual machines in isolated environments. Plex may, but is not obligated to, update the plex solution with updates, upgrades, enhancements, improvements, additions, new or incremental features or functionality of and generally made available through the plex solution as determined by plex in its sole discretion, or modifications that are provided as part of product support and any. Stop your plex container create a share on your array eg. I personally only use the official plex inc release due to this. Nov 1, 2008 wired up the the ac receptacle into the area where the unraid server is and everything powered up fine there. That said, i did used to run into occasional issues when i was importing a lot of data into unraid. How to set up unraid nas software with plex media server. So here is a quick guide on how to install the plex beta on unraid. I am still putting together the parts for my unraid build and i would like some input on the cache drives. Each disk in the unraid array is independent, two disks crashing will not bring down your entire array only the disks that crashed.

Feb 12, 2019 this is a tutorial showing how to use gpu transcoding in an emby or plex docker container on an unraid server. While, the nas is just a big file storage really and you may find that just copying the dvd files to nas directly is a pain to try and play with a media streamer. Go to the device manager, we will see 3 devices that dont have a driver in other devices. Pia is popular with unraid users as its easy to setup with various vpn. This is my unraid nas server, plex media server, unifi controller, unifi.

In order to follow this guide, you will need the following pieces of hardware and software. Cache drives how many and how large of ssds suggested. Jul 08, 2019 in this video, i show you how to easily setup a steam cache or lancache on your unraid server. Im a bit uncertain about what things should be on the cache and what shouldnt.

Jun 14, 2019 the best way to install and setup a windows 10 vm as a daily driver or a gaming vm duration. Sas3, in hba mode, so no marvel chipset and no saslp2 driver, but the same symptoms. Best way to map to unraid user or disk share posted in generalwindows. Originally, i was using two 240gb intel 540 ssds as cache drives for unraid. Finally moving forward with the nasserver i have been talking about doing. Bare in mind im a unraid noob too, as ive only just built and had my server up and running for about two months now and managed to install both sf and plex without to much hassel. Jan 10, 2017 to answer many questions that ive been asked about how much does the cache drive improve unraid 6 write performance. That said you should be able to mount it and use it for plex by pointing the plex library and temp directories to the drive. Looking for this to be relevant for vr content, so a video card upgrade may be due sooner than id like, but am i wrong thinking this should be workable. Limetech does not officially support running unraid in a vm, so this should not be used for production data. The cache disk feature of unraid greatly increases the perceived performance of the system when writing data to a parityprotected array. Click format, set the volume label to unraid this must be in all caps and click start after the format is complete, click on your usb flash drive labeled unraid and copy the contents of the unraid server zip file downloaded from above 1 to the flash drive. Discussion in hardware components and aftermarket upgrades started by frozensolid, oct 1, 20. This video shows how easily upgrade a plex unassigned drive to a new.

This is achieved by using qemu, libvirt and virtmanager running on the pi running the 64bit. For now unraid is working fine strictly as a bulk storage array for me as well as a backup nfs vm datastore cache only share for when i need to move some vms around in my vm cluster. All plugins are the responsibility of the plugin author. Dec 09, 2016 please note that the preclear plugin has been depreciated from unraid 6. Make sure the space youre giving plex on the cache drive is big enough for the transcodes youre doing.

Before we get right into the nitty gritty of setting up unraid, lets just go over some of the basics of what is unraid, suggested setups, etc. What this means is that there is parity across the disks in case of a failure. Using plex on unraid, users can leverage their underutilized hardware resources cpumemory to stream content over their network to a variety of different devices. You might notice in the list that the same device is. It is particularly useful for users who write data to the array on a regular basis, and can also be used as a scratch disc for certain applications. I can understand that if it is a raid0 and i thought with the cache i could do it and not lose the data but i also wanted to make sure first. Please use tags videoondemand, news, podcasts, tidal, or webshows. There were reports that dvd playback stuttered with this motherboardnetwork driver, but that was using previous versions of unraid, and the more recent 4. I know someone with 4x 500gb evo 860s and i was going to do the same but am now wondering if there would be any pros or cons to having 2x 1tb evo 860s instead for my caching. Odd thing is, it ran ok for a few hours before the issue appeared. This will cause the mover to move these shares back to the cache drive.

Generally speaking, by using a cache alongside an array of three or more drives, you can achieve up to 3x write performance. This is essentially the unraid do everything build. Im going to pretend that disk3 located from the shell at mntdisk3 is the drive i want to remove. It shows how to install and setup the excellent plugin from linuxserver. If your cache drive is an ssd, its a great choice to set up plex to use a cacheonly share. Jan 07, 2015 hey everyone, just thought id put this up here after reading a syslog by another forum member and realizing a repeating pattern ive seen here where folks decide to let plex create temporary files for transcoding on an array or cache device instead of in ram. Bios and driver support from the oem and reduced cooling capacity. Unraid is now able to do dual parity and dual cache drives for redundancy. Also you will learn how to upgrade or replace an existing cache drive and how to create a raided cache pool. With unraid, however, were virtualizing the environment in which plex is running and therefore mapping transcode to tmp masks the fact that ram is being used. Please help explain cache disk general support unraid. I am thinking about switching my current cache driver over to an ssd now that i am on unraid 6b12, and as far as i can tell it supports trim now. There is now a thread on the plex forums to cover bugsissues when running on an unraid box. The devices list lets you inspect all devices linked to your plex account.

Steam cache allows you to downloadinstall your games from steam, ea origin and others locally. Look for the location of our virtio cdrom and next to install the driver. How and why to preclear your hard drives before adding to. Just another warning make sure if you do start docker disable emptying of the trash until you map all of the media folders otherwise it will have to redownload all metadata step 4. How to set up the plex container now that i have unraid up and running, in this post i am going to discuss how i went about adding the plex containe r in u nraid 6. The streaming speedquality is controlled in the plex app youre using. Hi, quick question for anyone storing their movies on unraid do you map to them in mb3 server using user share.

Media server downloads plex media server for windows. The plugins page is a powerful addition to version 6 and serves a dual function, both to add, update, and remove. Looking to move off unraid alternative bulk storage os. If you were to install the ssd via usb, i dont believe it can be used as a cache drive in the sense of it cant be assigned as the cache drive in unraid. This video is the third in a series of videos about setting up a cctv system on an unraid server. In this video, i show you how to easily setup a steam cache or lancache on your unraid server. Sadly, the most confusing and aggravating part was getting the plex beta installed on my unraid nas.

I mainly use the box for torrenting with radarr and sonarr as well as hosting plex server and openvpn. How to quickly upgrade your plex appdata unassigned drive using. Windows disable large send offload lso driver setting. Unraid docker settings w cache drive pool for plex. How to add a cache drive, replace a cache drive or create a.

However, the benefit of dual parity is the same regardless of how many data drives you have it still provides a 2nd layer of fault tolerance that will allow a disk rebuild to successfully complete e. I dont use a cache drive and i get about 15 16 mbs when transferring files to unraid. You will need a valid license key for the unraid vm. Gpu cannot be used with unraid due to lack of nvidia drivers as you. High quality high performance preliminary testing sees a single nvdec job on a 128bit gtx 1050 ti 4gb pascal unable to use more than 30% 112 fps of the nvdec. Contribute to w wunraid development by creating an account on github. This is a video showing unraid running on a raspberry pi 4. Getting started is easy, download plex media server and well walk you through the rest.