Looking For Installation Recommendations

[spuleckip 1]

I've been running Emby on a slightly upgraded 'spare pc' for about 6 months and it's been great.  In that time, I've added a separate 128 GB SSD just for Emby Cache and Transcoding uses.  This has helped performance.

 

Over the coming weekend, I'll be migrating to a new dedicated box (Win 10 Pro) that has a beefier i7 with 6 cores and 12 threads and I'll have 1 SSD for the OS, 1 SSD for cache/transcoding and a 4 TB (maybe larger?) 7200 traditional hard drive for my media.

 

Since I'll be doing a fresh install of Emby, I'm looking for any recommendations.  Things like where to install (OS disk, cache/transcoding disk, something else?)  where to put the Emby database (if that's even an option) or anything in general.

 

If it makes a difference, I have both local media and live tv (combo of HDHomeRun and m3u) and a couple of occasional remote users who primarily use the live tv.

 

Thanks in advance for anything you can recommend.  I can't wait to get Emby up and running on this box.

[Luke 42080]

Hi, why not start with defaults and then just customize your cache folder with your SSD?

[spuleckip 1]

That’s more than likely what I will do, and keep the config I use today, but I *thought* I read someplace (that I couldn’t find today) that there was a performance benefit to having the Emby database (SQLite) on a different drive than the OS (or possibly just on a ssd) and that it wasn’t possible to move them after the install.

 

I’m could be (probably) just remembering wrong.