Tiered model storage with MinIO and rclone: keep the SSD hot, archive the rest
TL;DR Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is 15 GB. RealVisXL is 6.5 GB. Throw in a few LoRAs and a VAE, and your SSD hits the wall fast. I run a MinIO bucket as the long-tail model store, sync it to a local overflow directory on a 30-minute schedule via rclone, and register both the hot (SSD) and cold (synced overflow) paths in ComfyUI’s extra_model_paths.yaml. Models appear transparently; the loader searches both tiers. A fresh model lands in MinIO, appears locally within 30 minutes, and ComfyUI finds it without any manual shuffling. ...