I use Plex for watching stuff. My *arr stack is set up to send new movies/tv eps to libraries on an SSD.

Every couple of days I manually move anything watched to a library on an HDD for long term storage. I have Plex set up so that the TV and Movies libraries combine the two locations.

I think you can get a list of watched stuff from the Plex API. I could probably write a script to automate the workflow but if there’s a tool out there that already does this there’s no point in reinventing the wheel.

Anyone seen or heard of anything that would do the job?

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    21·
    12 hours ago

    Speed - the SSD is nice and quick but anything on the HDD buffers. Its not a bad suggestion though, I might try it out.

    • fatalicus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 minutes ago

      Unless you are running on Pata drives from the 90s or have movies in fucking 32k, there is no reason for movies on the hard drives to buffer.

      Probably something going on with your server causing it. The HDDs connected to a bad card, or something keeping the drives very busy

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      11 hours ago

      HDDs are plenty fast enough to play movies. It sounds like you have another problem.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      11 hours ago

      Any drive should read faster than media playback. I’d check the actual read speed and playback logs to make sure you’re not having other issues.