Overview: Storage and server platforms

Server storage connects readable media, persistent application state and temporary work to the machine and identities performing those operations.

An Emby server performs large media reads, small catalog operations and continuing temporary or recording writes. Those workloads can share a device while having different latency, capacity and persistence requirements.

This area follows storage from hardware and file paths through shared access and recovery. Execution-environment topics explain the process, VM or container that sees those paths; workload topics explain databases, caches and background activity. A successful desktop file test, a visible mount and a usable server backup each establish different pieces of that environment.

• Media storage fundamentals
  Media-storage fundamentals relate source reads, application work and temporary output to storage capacity and response time.

• File systems and paths
  File systems connect names and stored data through allocation, limits, access rules and activity mechanisms.

• Shared storage and permissions
  Shared-storage access combines a file-service path, accepted identity and the current availability of the remote tree.

• Data protection
  Data protection combines integrity evidence, retained generations and recovery mechanisms with the failures they are intended to address.

• Server execution environments
  Server execution environments define the process, resource and dependency context in which media operations run.

• Server data and workload
  Server data and workload topics describe the stored roles and background operations sharing the application's resources.