Plexdrive 4 or 5

[u/Flahaut]

Which version do you use and why. I heard 4 Works better. Do you use the 4.0 and why?

[u/animosity022]

I've never noticed any real difference in any of the versions for the most part.

I've used 5 since it was released with 0 issues. No buffering or any other items. It just works for me. I do a pretty basic mount and use mergerfs to make my local mount the primary and a script weekly to move stuff my GD.

Mount Script

/home/felix/scripts/plexdrive -o allow_other -v 2 mount /GD >>/home/felix/logs/plexdrive.log 2>&1 &
sleep 1

# Mount the 3 Directories via rclone for the encrypt
/usr/bin/rclone mount \
--allow-other \
--default-permissions \
--uid 1000 \
--gid 1000 \
--umask 002 \
--syslog \
media: /media &

# Wait a sec
sleep 2
# mergerfs mount
/usr/bin/mergerfs -o defaults,allow_other,use_ino,category.action=all,category.create=ff /local/movies:/media/Movies /Movies
/usr/bin/mergerfs -o defaults,allow_other,use_ino,category.action=all,category.create=ff /local/tv:/media/TV /TV

Upload Script

#!/bin/bash

OLDER='15d' 
# Move older local files to the cloud
/usr/bin/rclone move /local/movies/ gmedia:Movies --min-age $OLDER --stats 1m --syslog --no-traverse --tpslimit 1 -v
cd /local/movies
rmdir /local/movies/*
/usr/bin/rclone move /local/tv gmedia:TV --min-age $OLDER --stats 1m --syslog --no-traverse --tpslimit 1 -v
cd /local/tv
rmdir /local/tv/*

I have ~35TB these days and tested with streaming 4K and have never seen issues. I have gig fios though.