Plex buffers when nzbget is downloading to pool

[Thronic]

If I'm watching something on Plex, and e.g. Sonarr or Radarr has downloaded something, once it gets copied to the pool, I have strong buffering issues, even with just me watching. 

Anything I can turn off to make drivepooling a bit faster/more responsive? Running pretty much a default, and fresh, install now on Windows 11 Pro.

Or are we in ssd cache territory?

[Shane]

If Plex is accessing the files in the pool via network and the others are local, you could try enabling Manage Pool -> Performance -> Network I/O boost.

If your pool has duplication enabled you could try enabling Manage Pool -> Performance -> Read striping, if it isn't already. Some old hashing utilities have trouble with it, your mileage may vary.

There is also Manage Pool -> Performance -> Bypass file system filters, but that can cause issues with other software (read the tooltip carefully and then decide).

You might also wish to check if Windows 11 is doing some kind of automatic content indexing, AV scanning or other whatever on the downloaded files that you could turn off / exclude?

[Thronic]

Thanks so much for reminding me.. I had entirely forgotten about Bypass file system filters, I used to have that on and I remember now that it had a good effect. I don't think I had network IO boost on, but I'm turning that on as well, seems safe if it's just a read priority thing.