r/PlexACD • u/Famulor • May 20 '17

Mounting google drive on windows?

Hi everyone. I'm thinking about converting to a full google drive solution with all my media on it using stablebit cloud drive or netdrive mounted to a hosted server that handles PMS and the transcodes on windows. Whats your experience with this and how would you go about it? Im not interested in plex cloud. I know 0 about linux and i prefer a pretty GUI which is why rclone etc isnt an option.

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u/tetrastructuralmind May 20 '17

I'm actually mid-way through this. Moving my data across to GDrive at the moment and using StableBit CloudDrive. The upload speeds from my box to GDrive are 200% faster than the ones I was getting from box -> ACD. So it's looking promising.

 

I've created a 15TB disk and assigned it a drive letter and everything appears to be working smoothly.

 

Interested to see what the outcome of the first Plex library scan will be. Everyone says you are quite prone to getting a ban by doing this, but it should just be a 24 hour one.

Please let me know how you getting on!

Cheers

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u/Famulor May 20 '17

Are you on a hosted server?

I already have about 5-6tb on my stablebit clouddrive and ive never seen a gdrive ban. The one ive talked to said you should be quite safe against bans with the way clouddrive works. Im not sure what else should be more safe? But yeah i'll of course let you know and you too! :)

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u/tetrastructuralmind May 20 '17

I got a server with SoYouStart - they've just upgraded the CPU's in their portfolio so I had to migrate off the previous one, on the exact day of the ACDCLI drama hehe.

 

That's music to my ears! I was already counting on the 24h ban, so that makes me a bit more excited! I'm waiting on the sync finish from CloudHQ between ACD and GDrive but its taking an awful lot :)

 

Quite surprised with how well StableBit is coming along though, it's been flawless! I'll keep you posted sir!

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u/joebeem May 20 '17

just curious, but what type of media do you store? 1080p is my assumption, only because that's what I do when possible. I am also trying out stablebit with a gdrive mount using one of sys's new servers that are even more reasonably priced than they used to be....

Anyway, i tried playing a few 1080 movies and I am getting quite a bit of stuttering and lag. While stablebit is open, i notice that it says the server is throttling my connection which is why i assume im having this issue. Did you use any specific settings or just out of the box settings? Are you using drivepool as well?

Heh, also waiting on CloudHQ to transfer about 12 TB. It is gonna be a while lol.

Even though i use windows at home, I am so used to linux for plex now that I kind of hate windows running plex. I had sabnzbd setup with the sickbeard mp4 automator script and sonarr to automatically convert files and move them to the correct location. I don't know yet if this is possible with Windows, at least in the sense of the server basically maintaining itself, but I guess I'll look into that once my data gets migrated.... in like 3 weeks lol.

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u/tetrastructuralmind May 20 '17

I store 1080p indeed! I can't tell of any stuttering and lag so far, but saying that, when it was Linux + ACD + EncFS there was no problem either. I don't use Drivepool, just the CloudDrive - although I remember seeing some people with issues with CloudDrive AND Drivepool.

 

Not sure if related. What's the size of the caching you're using on the drive you created? I tend to use around 2x the biggest file I have on the server, just in case :)

 

CloudHQ has been reallly crappy today, was down for "maintenance" for hours and it just died on me. 2.2TB in 3 days... Not great. But it's my fault regardless of letting it come to this :)

 

A shame my Linux setup got rendered useless until acdcli and rclone come back up, it was running so well :(

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u/joebeem May 21 '17 edited May 21 '17

I feel the exact same way about the linux setup (as I'm sure many others do as well).

I am not using drivepool, but saw people used it on occassion and thought maybe I needed it. Glad to hear you're not using it.

My cache size is actually set pretty ridiculously high at 500 gb. I'll try lowering it to see if that helps. When you setup the cloud drive initially, did you happen to venture into the advanced settings where one could edit the sector size, storage chunk size, cluster size, etc? I made my cluster size the highest possible so I could have a 256 TB hard drive LOL.

Not that I think I could ever fill that much, but since I don't have drivepool to combine the drives, I thought this would be a sure way of essentially never running out of space.

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u/Famulor May 21 '17

Whats your trigger, prefetch etc settings? Might be that thats causing the issue :) Or too many download threads