u/BeefistPrime

I have a Galaxy S10 Ultra tab which is a very powerful tablet hardware wise. It has no problem running any android software. And it launches Plex quickly enough. But the actual process of starting a video and finding the place to resume in that video is really slow. It often takes 5-10 seconds to go from hitting play to seeing something, and scrolling to another part of the video might take 3-5 seconds.

And I don't think it's an internet connection issue. I have gigabit fiber at home and a strong wifi signal so my tablet is getting 300mbps download.

I've even tried downloading the video so it's on the local machine.

It seems to me that plex is just very slow and it's been getting worse over the last year. Any other video player is instantaneous in comparison. But I have plex libraries and didn't want to switch if I don't have to.

Is there any way to improve this situation? Is this an experience other people have, too? has it been getting worse over time?

I have a 32gb x 2 pair of DDR 5 patriot viper ram. one of the ram sticks died. I'm 99% sure of it, the working ram will boot alone and it will boot in the slot the bad ram was in. so it's almost certainly the ram stick.

I want to RMA that ram because it's insanely expensive to replace right now. But is Patriot one of those companies that makes you send both modules back as a matched pair? That would shut down my ability to use my PC for as long as it took for them to receive, evaluate, and ship me a new set of RAM.

Is it possible they'll let me send in only the bad one? Or that they can do cross ship, or perhaps send out the replacement first (putting a hold / deposit on my credit card or whatever) and then I can mail back both sticks after I receive the new ones?