Anyone using a SSD for the boot drive with Emby and Ubuntu?

[snorkel 15]

Just wondering how you have it setup so the SSD does not get filled up?

Are you keeping just the metadata on the SSD?

 

I currently have a small 128gb SSD as the boot and two  2tb drives mounted to /media/emby_media1 and /media/emby_media2

 

I have the transcode temp directory on the first 2tb drive and the DVR recordings going to the 2nd.  Movies are currently on a NAS device which I have mounted in the fstab via cifs.

 

 

[Luke 42077]

I would imagine this is pretty common. And yes best thing to do is just configure the transcode temp directory if needed.

[snorkel 15]

I would imagine this is pretty common. And yes best thing to do is just configure the transcode temp directory if needed.

What about the cache directory?  Do you think that would be ok to leave on the SSD?

[Luke 42077]

The server will automatically delete cache files that are 30 days old or more, so I think generally you'll be ok. But ymmv.

[snorkel 15]

The server will automatically delete cache files that are 30 days old or more, so I think generally you'll be ok. But ymmv.

 

Thanks for the Info Luke.  I will just keep an eye on the SSD free space.

[Guest plexman]

I have both Emby and Ubuntu on the same SSD (Samsung EVO 850 128Gb) and there is plenty of space. My Disk Free command shows:

/dev/sda1        Total: 109G    Used: 21G   Free: 84G  Used: 20%

My library is pretty big, 1800 movies, 250 shows, 20 documentaries. So no worries for the disk space. Cache and Emby itself are on the SSD, transcoding is on the media HDD but to save read/writes on the SSD, and because speed is not needed. 

Edited January 19, 2018 by plexman

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the feedback.

[snorkel 15]

I have both Emby and Ubuntu on the same SSD (Samsung EVO 850 128Gb) and there is plenty of space. My Disk Free command shows:

/dev/sda1        Total: 109G    Used: 21G   Free: 84G  Used: 20%

My library is pretty big, 1800 movies, 250 shows, 20 documentaries. So no worries for the disk space. Cache and Emby itself are on the SSD, transcoding is on the media HDD but to save read/writes on the SSD, and because speed is not needed. 

 

Thanks for the info, that is exactly how I have mine setup and I only have 120 ripped movies in my library :-)