jellyfin media adding

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Conceptually, you can store your media anywhere. Your Jellyfin server -- where you are running the server software -- just needs to be able to access it. In terms of "access" that means a minimum of read and execute, but generally read, write, and execute (in order to save metadata, images, etc...). This access can be by whatever means you want -- direct via SATA, USB, network/NAS, it can be on a remote server, some folks use tools like rclone to mount cloud storage like Google Drive...

So from a high level? Your media can live wherever, but your server must be able to access it. The information others shared as to locations is largely up to preference, other than the fact that putting media in your /home/user folder is a recipe for permissions hell followed by security hell. Use something like a /mnt/media folder (I have all of my various drives mounted as subfolders of /mnt/media which has worked out wonderfully).