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    Jellyfin Forum Support General Questions How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM

     
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    How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM

    Looking on instructions on how to setup transcoding in RAM.
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    2023-10-17, 11:52 AM
    Depending on the quality of your collection you may find that you actually don't have enough RAM. I just opened up 1 of my 4K movies and transcoding it set to "auto" took up 81GB in the transcode folder, or in your case this would have been 81GB of ram needed and that's just for a single transcode. If you run out of RAM then the transcode will fail and the movie will stop at the position it ran out of space at.

    Even one of the cheap (45$ 1TB SSD) is going to give you around 50,000 transcodes before you hit the warranty endurance level and most SSDs ive seen will hit 2x-3x that easily.
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    How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by ballen - 2023-10-17, 10:59 AM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by toytown - 2023-10-17, 11:52 AM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by ballen - 2023-10-17, 11:58 AM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by SmellyJellyBelly - 2024-12-31, 04:38 AM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by toytown - 2023-10-17, 12:10 PM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by TheDreadPirate - 2023-10-17, 01:11 PM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by Anders - 2024-06-06, 11:05 AM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-06-06, 11:22 AM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by 5cdru1ls - 2024-06-10, 10:01 PM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by TheDreadPirate - 2024-06-11, 04:05 PM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by pcm - 2024-06-11, 07:04 PM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by tomstephens89 - 2025-01-02, 07:24 AM
    RE: How to setup a "RAM Disk" / transcode in RAM - by TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-02, 01:52 PM

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