tomspark wrote:
Great question, and a common one. Here's how SparkBox uses storage: the app/config folder lives at /opt/sparkbox (your first drive), and your data folder (MEDIAROOT) — in your case, your NAS, where your library lives. One thing to avoid: don't put qBittorrent/SAB downloads on a different drive than your library. They need to sit on the same drive so a finished download moves into the library instantly — split them and every import turns into a slow full copy. Where a second drive genuinely helps today is backups: mount it and keep a backup copy there (though a copy on a separate machine is the real safety net if the server ever dies). There's no built-in 'assign this drive to cache/downloads' setting yet — proper per-drive tiering, including a fast scratch drive for the unpack/verify step, is a feature we want to add. Noted from this thread.