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?
Speed - the SSD is nice and quick but anything on the HDD buffers. Its not a bad suggestion though, I might try it out.
HDDs are plenty fast enough to play movies. It sounds like you have another problem.
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.