danjames9222

Please help me get to the bottom of why I'm experiencing slow, in relative terms, compared to my dedicated server 1Gb connection.
 

 
Average speeds, this is while something is uploading at 130Mb.
 
With 20 threads I am seeing 100 - 140Mb on a machine with gigabit up / down. With 10 threads, I see 60Mb max at all times. That seems a long way off from 900 potential?
 
2 x CloudDrives in a Drivepool with 2 x file duplication (OS + 1 cache on one drive, other drive cache on another drive, both HDD, both encrypted) 
 
Network adapter is set to Public, yet firewall won't let me edit to allow to allow for public networks for some reason. Would this have an impact?
 
I noticed there are firewall rules that don't have it set to allow public connections. Do I need to enable any?
 

 
Min download size: 20MB
Chunk Cache Size: 100MB
 

Please help me get to the bottom of why I'm experiencing slow, in relative terms, compared to my dedicated server 1Gb connection.
 

 
Average speeds, this is while something is uploading at 130Mb.
 
With 20 threads I am seeing 100 - 140Mb on a machine with gigabit up / down. With 10 threads, I see 60Mb max at all times. That seems a long way off from 900 potential?
 
2 x CloudDrives in a Drivepool with 2 x file duplication (OS + 1 cache on one drive, other drive cache on another drive, both HDD, both encrypted) 
 
Network adapter is set to Public, yet firewall won't let me edit to allow to allow for public networks for some reason. Would this have an impact?
 
I noticed there are firewall rules that don't have it set to allow public connections. Do I need to enable any?
 

 
Min download size: 20MB
Chunk Cache Size: 100MB
 

Yup, exactly.

I worked it out. By default it'll go to C:\$User\Downloads by default anyway then move it to the clouddrive after.

Those settings won't help for Plex.
 
See these helpful threads.
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/697c3z/stablebit_clouddrive_plex_and_you_an_update/

Browsing social media and other sources, I am seeing more and more a use case of StableBit Cloud Drive in conjunction with Plex as one of the recommended ways to have unlimited storage as a back end for media libraries.
 
I personally have been using it for about 5 months after testing for 1 month and have loved the results. You have to sacrifice some upfront load time and seek time but the result is you have unlimited storage.
 
What I am requesting is because I see this coming up more and more, is a setting for CloudDrive and possibly even DrivePool, that would automatically fine tune the performance of the Drive/Pool for use with Plex. I see many different recommended setup setting being thrown around with from users that don't fully understand what the setting actually do for performance. As the creators of the software, you would have more insight on what settings to actually use, for each provider, to maximize performance for the Plex use case, instead of power users hunting down and tweaking their drives using information on the internet that could negatively impact them.
 
What I propose, is on the I/O Performance window you can create a checkbox to say "Use recommended settings for Plex" which would automatically fill in the boxes with the settings that would work best for a cloud drive with large media libraries. That would take a lot of the guess work out for new users looking to setup a cloud drive for plex and ensure they are not negatively affecting performance in their initial testing phase of the product and could convert more demo uses to sales. This checkbox could also change settings that the user won't have access to traditionally if needed, so it is more even more incentive to be using the "recommended settings".
 
You could also take this into consideration when you have the wizard for creation of a new drive. I would have loved to have a checkbox when I initially created my drives that said "This drive would be for use with Plex" then it automatically sets the chunk size for the provider to maximum and sets the drive size to the largest sector size for easy drive expansion in the future, without having to re-create the drive.
 
Please let me know if you have any questions.
 
Thanks,
Desani
 
EDIT: You could also continually optimize the settings with future releases as different options or better settings become available as the product matures. Thus ensuring that the settings I have on the drive today, don't stay as the potential back end of the program changes and better settings become available.

Does anyone use this in combination with Sonarr? Would like to hear from others experiences with it.
 
Curious to know if it's downloading the whole file when scanning it as this will throw a spanner into the works with my plan.

Hi,
 
My internet is a bit limited with only 75Mb down and 17up.
 
When streaming via Plex, I can get shows to start (i.e. on the first playback without it timing out as the cache builds) if I set it to 150MB but what would be useful would be if I could get it to rise to 400MB automatically after a few minutes of playback. Is this a feasible request in terms of programming? I'm not a developer and have no idea how feasible this is but it would help me immensely.
 
Many thanks,
 
Dan.