I am not a true data hoarder but I have a Plex server running on a very old Dell Optiplex 9020, which has an i5-4570 and 12GB RAM. Media is stored across four hard drives, all of which are attached to a single 4-bay enclosure, which is attached to the Dell via USB. Windows 10 is running on the drive inside the Dell, and I use remote desktop to manage it.
This is not a great system obviously but it does work. Media streams with no problem. My problem is that managing this system through remote desktop is terribly slow. Like, it takes thirty seconds to draw a window upon clicking something. This is when Plex is doing nothing. I realize that if the Dell were trying to interact with the media drives, there would be an obvious bottleneck, but this is happening at times when, it seems to me, nothing should be going on w/r/t the media drives. I have turned off as many indexing services as I can find. Can anyone think of anything I can do just to make management easier? I just want windows to ignore the media drives entirely unless Plex is actually using them for some reason. Any suggestions welcome. I am not super excited about starting over with Ubuntu. This is because the system is also creating local backups of certain Microsoft Onedrive folders—but before you ask, those are also stored on the internal HD, and not the media drives. Thanks in advance.
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