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Originally Posted by cybmole
Well the IDM devlopers themselves recommend it!
they say this
" Temporary directory is required for storing file parts during download. If you have different physical drive on your computer you should select different physical drives for temporary directory and for" save to" folders for faster assembling of downloaded files "
( A download manager opens multiple simultaneous connections & thus ends up with many small file fragments which then have to be assembled into a single file once the download is complete. )
& as I understand it a calibre conversion involves creating lots of small temporary files, then using them to build the final output ?
changing the PC into a RAID setup is mega bucks overkill just to shave a few secs off of an occasional bulk conversion, surely ?
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You're the one who started this discussion...
As for the download manager, assembly of files would likely be faster on different drives, but that's only a tiny part of the overall operation, that is downloading the file in the first place. While downloading, the bottleneck is surely the internet connection. You do the math.
And as far as Calibre's conversion process goes, yes, it creates temporary HTML files. I'm no expert on that, but I'd guess the main cost here is processing the files, not the deassembly of the source format and reassembly of the target format. So, I'd guess that the conversion speed would profit more from having a faster CPU and access to more RAM as opposed to the temporary files being on a different disc. As I mentioned before, I have that exact setup by coincidende on one of my computers, and it doesn't make any discernible difference in conversion times.
And, really, speeding up conversion? Most of my conversions took well under a minute.