I’m running a FreeNAS box, and I have both the media and the metadata on spinning disks. Has anyone tested to see if the UI (i.e. thumbnails loading, etc. ) is significantly faster when the metadata is on an SSD? I just got a larger one, and I have the space, but right now I like my setup of having the metadata on a separate volume.
Yes, even more so if you have a large library. It’s all about random access.
Yes I understand how SSDs work and how this could be much faster, in theory. I’m curious if anyone has mad e the jump, though, and if they noticed any big changes.
I did a jump from an 500GB old typ drive to a 500GB SSD; boot time is much much faster, medialoading to a degree, but not that much.
Thanks for the info. Yeah I’m already running all of my VMs / Jails on an SSD. That being said, I have the metadata sym linked to a dataset on my storage volume… so it already boots off an SSD. Metadata just resides on a dual redundancy volume. I’m thinking I might try changing it up, such that the metadata is on the SSD, but then I’ll use rsync to just back it up to the redundant volume.
Something to be aware of: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1151833#Comment_1151833
