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Immich3mo ago
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What to store on SSD and HDD

While reading through the docs, many times it's recommended to store the DB on an SSD for a better overall experience.

I was wondering about the rest, but when looking I only found a reference in the TrueNAS section mentioning:

Thumbnails can also be stored on the SSDs for faster access. This is an advanced option and not required for Immich to run.

backups: I suppose there isn't any benefit in the daily experience having this on an SSD, besides faster dumps written to disk
encoded-video: I guess this might benefit for faster access for the same reasoning as thumbs? I'm just an Immich user, not knowing the inner workings I don't know if this is noticeable and worth keeping on an SSD?
thumbs: Same as above but for photos
library: These are the actual assets as far as I understand, can be kept on HDD without a performance hit.
upload: Same as above depending on your storage template and setup? Still holds the original assets.
profile: Holds profile pictures of the Immich users (I guess) and not sure what else? Probably not noticeable?

Also was wondering about model-cache: this holds the models used for ML, if I understand correctly they're loaded into memory when needed by the server, hence keeping them on the SSD probably allows for faster startup?
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