LightSpeedTaco

Hello everyone, It’s short notice but rather important to get taken care of and I figured before the weekend would be best. Early in the morning of the 30th of May, 2025, there will be a few hours of downtime while the array is backed up for image transfer once the new larger drives have been initialized in their new array. Subsequently, later that same day in the early afternoon or morning, there will be another few hours of downtime while the disk image is restored and the array is fully initialized. Estimates have it between the following times… First Outage Window – 2:00 AM EST to 5:00 AM EST Second Outage Window – 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM EST These are tentative but there will be downtime on the 30th regardless. This is to ensure that our growing community has it’s hardware demands met and can continue to function nominally and without unexpected disruption. Thank you for your understanding. -LST

Hello everyone, You may have recently received or heard of some changes that Plex is implementing on their end when it comes to “Remote Streaming”. The email looked like this… Right off the bat, I’d like to be clear that any users that the Plex library is shared with will retain the ability to remotely stream from the server are not subject to the limitations implemented in the changes which can be seen with a bit more detail and clarity on the Plex Support page regarding the topic.https://support.plex.tv/articles/requirements-for-remote-playback-of-personal-media/That being said, I just wanted to clarify any confusion that the email from Plex may have caused.When it comes to WarpEngine, you’re covered from our end, no need to pay for a Remote Streaming Pass for our libraries. –LightSpeedTaco

Hello everyone, As you may have seen on the left of the page, we’ve once again gotten close to our storage capacity. In an effort to open up some more space and still be able to maintain the open requests submissions as usual. Again for this purge, constraints have been tightened a bit from 500 days to 365 days for un-viewed content. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 365 days TV ShowsMovies – Days since media has been added and no Plex user has viewed the content exceeds… 60 days Preliminary dry runs indicate a significant relief to the storage arrays utilized space under these new conditions. Pruning routine execution time: January 2nd, 2:00 AM EST -LightSpeedTaco

Hello everyone, As you may have seen on the left of the page, we’ve once again gotten close to our storage capacity. In an effort to open up some more space and still be able to maintain the open requests submissions as usual. Movie and Show media that was added but has yet to be watched since it’s addition for 90 days, it will be removed. This has changed from the prior constraint of 180 days. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 500 days TV ShowsMovies – Days since media has been added and no Plex user has viewed the content exceeds… 90 days *Note: Considering 365 days for any views down from 500 days… Preliminary dry runs indicate a significant relief to the storage arrays utilized space under these new conditions. Pruning routine execution time: by August 1st, 2024 Completed: July 29th, 2024 – 4:42 PM EST -LightSpeedTaco

If you’ve made it this far, then you’ll likely have already seen the first item in the title of this post on the left side of the webpage. That’s right, every 5 minutes, we do a quick query and send a update if it’s changed between the media server hardware and the dev blog here. Why every 5 minutes? Well, requests will spike the usage of storage particularly if it’s an entire set of files rather than the day to day on and off traffic of keeping things up to date. Without expressly mentioning the available and utilized storage numbers themselves but providing a percentage and traffic-light style indicator system, you will be able to gauge how close we are to a stale content purge, which brings us to our next order of business in this post, the upcoming stale media purge. If you recall or were already a member when this post went up, then it’ll be more of the same for you. Here is the same breakdown from the prior purge as the thresholds have not changed since. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 500 days TV ShowsMovies… Read More »Storage Indicator | Upcoming Mass Stale Media Removal | Request Protections