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Originally Posted by Serpentine
performance of conversion is exactly the same as my mechanical drives (SSD's are Vertex 3's, mech are old Hitachi Deskstars which are well looked after)
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I disagree. Non-CPU bottlenecked conversions run faster from an SSD than from HDD. I realized that when I had a script that kept timing out on me without the Calibre conversion finishing (max execution time: 600s/10 mins). Moved to an SSD and the whole thing finished in just 6 mins. I had to do a batch conversion of around 3,000 ebooks and the entire process finished a couple of hours faster on the SSD.
Seriously, the amount of writes Calibre does is very minimal when compared to an SSDs overall longevity. To put things in perspective, a 120/128GB SSD with a conservative 3,000 P/E cycle NAND rating is capable of at least 375TB host writes. Typical users write around 3-5GB per day. With 375TB available host writes, it will take
210 years before the NAND runs out of P/E cycles.