Emby activating sleeping HDD with only movies?

[ussie284]

Currently building a Truenas server with the main pool being all NVME.
My plan is to host an Emby server for series and movies.
As i rarely have time for movies my wish is to have the series on the NVME pool and the movies on the HDD pool and let them spin down and for the occasional movie spin up. As that will probably be once or twice a month.

My question is will Emby activate the HDD pool even when only accessing the main page to watch series?

I know (from Wendell) that metadata is a thing and you can migrate files smaller than 1mb to a different drive. Is this something i have to do to achive this?

Thank you for any feedback!

[Dynamic_Gravity]

TLDR; Don’t bother doing this its not worth it.

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There are various housekeeping tasks that Emby does to steward the data. So if you have your drives configured to spin up/down based on access then it wouldn’t work. At least not very easily, you would need to stop all the jobs it does.

For your second question: the server components are served from /var/packages/EmbyServer mount which is not where your library lives.

The data directory on linux is by default /var/lib/emby. SOURCE