Yes immich supports scanning external libraries but doesn't store the processed data in the external library.
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I think you can set where immich media is stored with the UPLOAD_LOCATION var in the .env file
I'm not an expert, so grain of salt and whatnot.
You can designate drives in the zfs array as cache disks. I have spinning disks setup as raid-z and an SSD as the cache then just dump everything to the array and let sw figure out what to do with it
Thanks I'll look into this, I've never setup ZFS but the hardware I need to comes next week. looking forward to it
My setup is exactly what you're aiming for: Immich and it's database resides on the main SSD while the photos and videos are uploaded to my NAS using NFS shares and a bind mount to /mnt/
I run Cosmos Cloud so the manner in which it's implemented may be slightly different to your setup.
It isnt the snappiest experience loading media off the HDD's but it's been very reliable.
Thanks I'll see if I can get the thumbnails on the SSD for more snappyness.
You know, my thumbnails load super slow on my phone but your comment made me think I should check where the thumbnails are located. First though I noticed I had this setting on, after disabling it they now load almost instantly:
I think you could do both with each service's external library feature
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai
Maybe it could give a problem with access rights between Nextcloud and Immich.
I'd want to give Immich read only rights, would need to see if that is possible.