Fast forward 5 years and containerisation has cemented itself as a major force in the industry.įor those looking to build a media server, containers offer a uniquely brilliant way to run applications. In the Plex docker container you could then just have one volume mapping for all the media (/media to /mnt/user/media) and then in the Plex server itself browse to /media/ to assign folders to libraries for the different media types as you are currently doing.Īgain, there is no advantage to doing it one way or another other than personal preference regarding media organization on the server.įrom an organizational standpoint it makes a lot of sense.Back in 2016 when I wrote the original PMS article Docker was a fairly new kid on the block. You could accomplish the same thing in Plex by having just one share for all your media (/mnt/user/media) in unRAID with subfolders for media type.
It could just as easily be done if the media types are subfolders of one media share. I have cloud backups and on-site backup server backups organized by media type and keeping them separate is simply they way I prefer to do it. etc.) simply for organizational purposes.
I prefer separate shares in unRAID by media type (top level folder for Movies, Photos, Videos, Music, etc.) and separate Plex container volume mappings (/movies to /mnt/user/Movies, /pictures to /mnt/user/Pictures. There is no performance or operational advantage to having separate volume mappings in a docker container or separate shares in the unRAID array organized by media type. Just thought I'd ask before I start migrate 23TB of media. I have my Plex container path /media and host path /mnt/user/media which has subfolders (movies, tv shows, etc). Is there a benefit to this I am not seeing? I ask because I am in the process of moving my media from a Synology box that I was running the Plex package on to the Unraid server I built. I have noticed a lot of people have a separate container for movies, tv shows, music, etc.
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