Basic question about saving metadata next to media?

[nmkaufman 50]

When I tell Emby Server to save images and metadata next to my media, are these the actual working images and metadata that Emby fetches when I browse the library? Or more like a backup?

 

Would I expect to see a decrease in performance, for instance, if I started saving this information to a mechanical HDD where my media resides, vs the SSD with my Operating System?

 

If performance is worse, is there any way to reverse this setting? And reabsorb (for lack of a better word) the images and metadata back into Emby's internal folders?

 

My machine is a bit underpowered, so having to repulate Metadata from scratch takes days so I can't just experiment very easily. I appreciate any help I can get.

[ebr 16185]

Hi. You will not see decreased performance from doing this.

 

Images are cached and metadata comes from the database.

[nmkaufman 50]

Very cool. Thanks for the quick response.