Originally Posted by beninho

Back in the day my dad did this as well and I never understood why. We've got a cupboard full of all his CDs/DVDs which he never touches and are pretty much obsolete in this day and age. He's got this filing system to rival a national library but I've never seen him pull out a DVD to watch a movie again haha.

I personally store all my downloaded stuff on a 3TB hard drive which is constantly connected to my laptop to rack up those seed points. It's getting full though so I'll most likely be investing in another one soon and getting a USB hub to have everything running round the clock.

Come to think of it I think we all suffer from some element of hoarding lol.

I used to copy on DVD as well, but that costly, takes time and indeed you never come back to it or rarely and it's harder to find what you want when you get a big collection compare to a HDD.

I do like to keep every series and films. It just stored on a simple HDD, but since I travel with them a lot, so far they never last, and everything is lost, including photos and documents. The last one is just few months old.

@Simoss

i have dell desktop i5 , 4gb ram and 320 gb hard drive, windows 8. plex client is Samsung tv. i was having buffering issue on samsung tv. so i was trying to troubleshot the issue. i installed linux on desktop same issue, tried ethernet powerline switch same issue. everytime i reinstall the OS. i have to copy and paste my all movies. thts lot of work. so i was thinking getting 2tb external hard drive and use that for media storage. and set library path in plex media server - stream from external hard drive.

do u think it will work?as external hard drive will have slow read and write speed as compare to internal hd.

Good Morning hellraiser,

First some background and help with the plex. Are you sure you have buffering issues? If you do you can adjust that in your plex settings. My guess is that it is more likely you are having encode/decode issues especially if you had your computer hard wired to the tv. Plex will certainly have no issues running data off an external hard drive. the read write times between internal and external probably aren't that significant and it will buffer what it needs anyway. Personally, I would have the dell running windows 8, with the 2 tb external. That should work more than fine. So, get that set up, and then we can work on your buffering settings next, give me a shout when you are ready for the next step. What format is your media in? There are certainly formats that are better than others for plex and will have to keep it from encoding.

@Simoss

dell desktop motherboard have two sata slot. one used for hard drive and another for dvdrom. i was thinking that i hardly use dvdrom so i can remove dvdrom and install 120gbssd and on other sata slot i can install 2tb HD.

or

do u have portable or non portable external hard drive?

Two SATA slots is plenty. How many USB ports? 120 GB SSD might be a tad small for Windows 8, but it should work for a while, personally, I would double that and in truth, SSD isn't really required if you are only using it for media. DVD ROM's are certainly overrated these days. I would also use a non portable HD so it has good power from something other than the computer, but either would work.

Originally Posted by RossoBreitner

It is very easy to understand.
Many of people who like movies, especially not the mainstream ones, consider each movie as a unique being, having its own substance, do it deserves a nice and special treatment

Like all retail dvds or BDs, it deserves to be burned to disk, having a custom or retail cover etc.
I realise that some of them, like your dad, rarely pull out a DVD to watch a movie again.
May be because every day more movies are added to the collection!
Although I can understand his point, which could be same for me.

At least to me, the point is to have every movie in order, to a certain place, visible (because even seeing a home made dvd case with a movie can be ..pleasure, like seeing and enjoying a collection of vinyl records ) and then to have the option to pull out any of them and watch it!

About your 3TB hard drive storage, I am sure you will find out that is is very liittle, especially if you like HD or full dvd movies.
In that case, and since you do not burn dvds to gain hard drive space, you will find out ....really soon

I just got my first HD tracker so I'm starting to understand what you mean haha!

Originally Posted by hellraiser15

i have dell desktop i5 , 4gb ram and 320 gb hard drive, windows 8. plex client is Samsung tv. i was having buffering issue on samsung tv. so i was trying to troubleshot the issue. i installed linux on desktop same issue, tried ethernet powerline switch same issue. everytime i reinstall the OS. i have to copy and paste my all movies. thts lot of work. so i was thinking getting 2tb external hard drive and use that for media storage. and set library path in plex media server - stream from external hard drive.

do u think it will work?as external hard drive will have slow read and write speed as compare to internal hd.

I've been having buffering issues as well while streaming from a seedbox to my Samsung TV. I dont know if our issues are related to the TV or our settings are coincidentally the same. In any case I gave up cause it was just unbearable.

@beninho

what version of plex media server you have. if you have latest version then that is the issue. you need to downgrade to 9.11.16 PMS version.

@Simoss

6 usb port.

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