Overview: Media storage fundamentals
Media-storage fundamentals relate source reads, application work and temporary output to storage capacity and response time.
An Emby workload can combine long media reads with small catalogue operations and continuing writes. Those operations stress storage in different ways. The hardware and performance branches establish that distinction, while temporary-storage topics connect space requirements to the lifetime of active work.
How media storage affects a server
Media storage serves large playback reads, small library operations and writable server data, each with different demands.Storage hardware and connections
Storage hardware and connections describe the medium, command interface and path supplying file data.Storage performance
Storage performance depends on request pattern, queue and service delays, device state and reusable cached data.Temporary storage and RAM disks
Temporary storage holds disposable work such as transcoding output, and a RAM-backed location trades disk activity for memory use and volatility.