SSD for Plex Media Server data/cache directory |OMV4 NAS

Hi! I use my NAS, with OMV installed on a cheap Drevo X1 Pro 64GB SSD, as Media Server, leaning on Plex to stream movies and tv series that take me up around 6TB of storage (HDD) and I've never had troubles with streaming.
My Plex Database occupies about 120GB of space and I expect it to grow even more

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My Plex Database occupies about 120GB of space and I expect it to grow even more

Can you share how much media is contained in your Plex libraries (# of movies, episodes, songs, pics, etc)?

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Can you share how much media is contained in your Plex libraries (# of movies, episodes, songs, pics, etc)?

It's not so much how much media you have, but rather what you have told Plex to do with it all.

If you enable Generate video preview or chapter thumbnails in Plex | Settings | Server | Library, your metadatabase can become quite large and it will take a very long time for all the thumbnails to be generated.

I have about 9TB of movies and TV shows with video preview thumbnails that started being generated over five months ago and are still being generated.

So far my metadatabase is over 120GB and will eventually exceed 250GB.

It should be obvious that you do not want this database to be on your OMV rootfs drive regardless how much space you have available on it. It is also not a good idea to include it in a SnapRAID array (use an exclude statement to prevent it from being synced if it is located on a disk that you do want to be included in SnapRAID).

use plex dockers and define config in docker inside the SSD, is what I do.

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Hello,

I want to install Plex Media Server on my Open Media Vault NAS, but the USB Stick which OMV 4 runs off is too small (8GB), and I don't want to stress my Hard Disk as much as possible.

So adding a SSD to my NAS seems to be the best option, but could I get away buying the cheapest SSD i can find (e.g. Kingston A400 120GB), or would a bigger/better SSD (e.g. Crucial MX500 250GB) make more (if any) sense?

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At one time in the distant past I thought there would be a performance advantage (search speed, etc) to placing PMS's metadatabase on a SSD compared with placing it on a HDD. That advantage never materialized, so I put it back onto an ordinary HDD.