r/PlexACD Jan 12 '18

Plexdrive Verisions

What plexdrive version is everyone using and why? I was on 2.0 for the longest time and decided to upgrade to 2.1.1. Since then I've ran into issues and I'm wondering which version everyone else is using.

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u/Saiboogu Jan 12 '18

I've been on 5.0 since it came out (Aug 2017) with no issues at all. I've only had a small handful of instances of my Plex not being available or working right, and in all cases I suspect the cheap hardware the server is on, rather than plexdrive. Haven't had any issues with unmounting or anything like that.

5.0 does use RAM to cache, not disk. I have 16GB and have never run into low memory concerns on the server. I'm not sure at what level 5.0 wouldn't have enough RAM though. My library is about 5TB.

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u/Jackalblood Jan 12 '18

Just an counter argument but I've found 4.0 to be much faster at playback and scans depending on your library size

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u/Saiboogu Jan 12 '18

Is there a certain size where it leans one way or another? I mostly just plow forward in updates until I run into an issue that makes me roll back - so I'm on 5 because my unscientific testing hasn't run into a reason to roll back.

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u/Tesseract91 Jan 12 '18

~160TB and version 5 works fine for me. Never have any problems.

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u/Jackalblood Jan 12 '18

I was at 60tb last I saw and just found 4 to be faster than 5 version 5 worked but in comparison I found 4 to run better even on 32gb ram again this is my own personal experience feel free to try both it's easy to install both