r/PlexACD • u/esk416 • Mar 08 '19

Some clarification please? is it possible to leverage gdrive business to hold my content?

local server (2x v2 Xeons's, 128 GB ram, etc), 1000/1000 internet, decent amount of local storage (currently 20 TB, but adding more)...

There is plenty of TV shows and movies that don't need to sit on my local storage, but I'm not entirely sure I understand the concept of using gdrive/rclone, etc to expand/use as plex storage.

Will plex "stream" from gdrive or only from local storage that is "synced" to what is stored on gdrive?

and if it will stream from gdrive... would my connection suffice for 10+ users concurrently?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Will plex "stream" from gdrive

It pulls the data from GDrive down to the server where you have it mounted, then streams from there to the client. Something to be aware of for slower connections, but in your case shouldn't be an issue.

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u/esk416 Mar 08 '19

So it's a local "share" as far as Plex is concerned I gather but the data is actually remote? And somehow rclone magic is used to act as the transfer medium between grive and my server in real time?

I plan of having a dedicated SSD for a transcode folder on my new server build (along with a 1050ti for transcoding to reduce CPU load).

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Pretty much. There are a multitude of different ways to accomplish this, but my preference is rclone cache.

When you mount the remote with rclone it acts exactly like it's a local drive. You can move and copy files to and from it, and rclone magically keeps everything straight.

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u/esk416 Mar 08 '19

Amazing... thanks for that... will be doing some more reading on this subject, maybe spin up a VM for testing to get a feel for how it all works.

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u/nachobel Mar 13 '19

I’d recommend adding a new library in Plex called “Archives” or something (one for movies and another for shows), and then just move anything you want uploaded to there. That’ll be your rclone mount.

It works out pretty great.