SOLVED! Very Slow Disk Performance

Yorick

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Side note for that Plex jail: Plex uses scratch space for transcoding. If you run out of space on that ssd, you can always stick Plex into your main pool.

I have seen people run jails from SSD; I have yet to understand why. It could just be “because we can”, or maybe there are specific jails that benefit from the increased IOPS of an SSD for their in-jail data. Plex certainly is fine on your main pool, performance wise.
 

qxotic

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Side note for that Plex jail: Plex uses scratch space for transcoding. If you run out of space on that ssd, you can always stick Plex into your main pool.

I have seen people run jails from SSD; I have yet to understand why. It could just be “because we can”, or maybe there are specific jails that benefit from the increased IOPS of an SSD for their in-jail data. Plex certainly is fine on your main pool, performance wise.

What I've heard is that it loads faster to have the metadata on an SSD.
 

Yorick

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