Question about Paths

[coolspot 22]

 For the longest time I've had my OS and my Emby server on my Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

All of my windows libraries, as well as my emby libraries, I've had on seperate D: E: F: regular harddrives.

I had noticed a larger use of my SSD than I expected and it's had more Terabytes written to it than I thought.

I've since cloned my 840 Pro OS drive to a new 970 Samsung Evo drive and I'm debating on what to do with my recently formatted old SSD

I'm seeing if changing the Emby Cache and metadata drives to my old drive will decrease the writes to my OS drive (and how much)

 

Which leads to my question.

What's best practice for transcoding/metadata and cache pathing in Emby.

 

 

is it better to do D:\Cache or \\jericho\Cache and share the cache folder?

does sharing the cache/metadata/transcoding help at all?

 

Thanks

 

Edited June 23, 2018 by coolspot

[Luke 42086]

A direct path would be best.

[coolspot 22]

\\jericho\Cache

\\jericho\metadata

\\jericho\transcoding

 

 

and sharing those is best then correct?

Edited June 23, 2018 by coolspot

[Luke 42086]

No, these folders are internal to the server. they don't need to be shared. emby apps will not use them.

[coolspot 22]

That's what I originally thought, but when I was changing the metadata path (see my snip attachment)

It mentioned 

 

(Optional) Shared network folder

If this folder is shared on your network, supply the network share path can allow Emby apps on other devices to access media files directly"

 

That's what brought all this to my attention =)

Edited June 23, 2018 by coolspot

[Luke 42086]

I can't even remember why we did that for the metadata setting, but if i recall it might be related to emby for kodi and cinema mode.