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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Information on the current workers can be found [here](/administration/jobs-work
 | `DB_SSL_MODE`                       | Database SSL mode                                                                      |            | server                         |
 | `DB_VECTOR_EXTENSION`<sup>\*2</sup> | Database vector extension (one of [`vectorchord`, `pgvector`, `pgvecto.rs`])           |            | server                         |
 | `DB_SKIP_MIGRATIONS`                | Whether to skip running migrations on startup (one of [`true`, `false`])               |  `false`   | server                         |
-| `DB_STORAGE_TYPE`                   | Optimize concurrent IO on SSDs or sequential IO on HDDs ([`SSD`, `HDD`])<sup>\*3</sup> |   `SSD`    | server                         |
+| `DB_STORAGE_TYPE`                   | Optimize concurrent IO on SSDs or sequential IO on HDDs ([`SSD`, `HDD`])<sup>\*3</sup> |   `SSD`    | database                       |
 
 \*1: The values of `DB_USERNAME`, `DB_PASSWORD`, and `DB_DATABASE_NAME` are passed to the Postgres container as the variables `POSTGRES_USER`, `POSTGRES_PASSWORD`, and `POSTGRES_DB` in `docker-compose.yml`.