# Best practices to save SSD drive

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [January 2, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/best-practices-to-save-ssd-drive/900696 "2025-01-02T11:24:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jst566](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@jst566](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jst566)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/best-practices-to-save-ssd-drive/900696/1 "2025-01-02T11:24:36Z")

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Hi there, just installed plex server on a Proxmox LXC, the point is that the server is installed on a SSD drive which I intend to have for long time, so avoiding recurrent writings to it will help.

The data for my library is located on a external drive which I connect to via smb-cifs.

Which folders do you recommend to move, if there is any chance to, in order to achieve my goal?  
I thought that tmp and transcode folders, dont know if theres more to move, and by the way, can I use the RAM for the cache?

thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/best-practices-to-save-ssd-drive/900696/2 "2025-01-04T07:24:19Z")

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If you map hdd-based directories into the container,  
you can then tell PMS to use those directories by creating a systemctl override file.

( You are using a systemctl-based distro in the continer ?)

> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/3):
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> Customizing your Plex configuration on systemd based systems This information is intended for those systems where cat /proc/1/comm returns systemd. On systems which use Systemd (Ubuntu 16+, Fedora 26+, Centos 7+, Debian 8+,) you create this customization file which SystemD reads prior to launching PMS. This file is independent of the default configuration and service control mechanisms in /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service. Your customization override is preserved across updates, un…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/best-practices-to-save-ssd-drive/900696/3 "2025-04-04T07:24:47Z")

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