Any benefit to moving database to separate disk from storage?

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I have a single 14 TB drive that I have running for Storage. Recently I have noticed very high load and wait on my machine (load average: 43.75, 37.17, 35.11). As soon as I stop the docker container, this drops down to less than 2.

Right now, the DB and the Storage are all on the same 14 TB drive. I’m wondering if there is a benefit to moving the database to a spare SSD I have?

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The lesser io on the disk, the better.
check if running under user or root.
filewalker takes much io anyway

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If you did not have any impact except a high IO Wait, then maybe not.
But if your node is suffering from errors about databases are locked and other database-related errors, then - yes, go ahead.