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Originally Posted by dwanthny
I can't speak to your experiment and have little doubt that a SSD would speed things up, but I recently converted 9000 ePubs on my I7 computer and I averaged just over 2000 books an hour. It was sweet seeing all 8 cores churning away converting those books. The machine also has a SATA III 6gps drive. Even so there were a couple of books that took longer than 10 minutes, I don't have a terminate time limit set.
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Is that using the GUI? On the SSD, I was getting a bit over 550 books (files ranged in size from 5KB to 5MB) per hour on average on a single core (only had 1 core assigned per VM). One thing I've noticed is on the SSD, CPU utilization was 100% all the time. On the mechanical drive, CPU usage was mostly 100% but it occasionally dipped to 50% or below. I can only imagine that particular problem will be exacerbated when running multiple instances of ebook-convert. In fairness, while a bit aged, the CPU I was using was no slouch (Core i7-860). Still, I'm chomping at the bit to upgrade to Ivy Bridge.