Re-indexing…Again

So its turns out that the last time I migrated Plex, the old library was discarded and rebuilt which took a bit of time however I now learned that the drive the indexing occurred has some bad sectors and is actually quite old.

It was having some trouble deleting and updating old index files as a result. So I stuck the library onto the same drive as the actual media which will likely initially slow down performance then speed it up as the buffer for a media file playing is significantly bigger than the time it would take for the drive to look up any necessary index information.

So expect slower media performance during the indexing however I’ll update this post when indexing is complete where the drive will mainly be reading and only writing logs and indexing new media added.

Sorry for any inconvenience but I’d rather this get taken care of prior to the drive just crapping out entirely and the rebuild needing to happen then.

LightSpeedTaco

Update: It seems that everything has indexed and updated and now that the index data is on the same disk as the media itself it seems to be running better than it was on the other disk. One thing to note is that Sickbeard/Plex really hate season 5 of Adventure Time so for the time being I’ve removed it.

Sorry for any inconvenience!