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Originally Posted by kacir
If that is your priority, you might want to put your library on a better harddisk. Perhaps even Solid State Disk.
My friends tell me that if you have limited budget to improve PC it might be better to get SSD and a bit weaker processor, instead of splurging on really fast processor alone.
If you do less conversions and more work with metadata, where Calibre has to open many files fast, you might benefit form a faster disk more than from a faster processor.
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Upgrading to a better mechanical disk wouldn't really make much of a difference as access times and random read/write would still be atrocious. I can definitely attest to the fact that Calibre works faster with SSDs, though. Unfortunately, moving to an SSD is not always feasible when dealing with laptops. Since a laptop is mobile, there may be times when internet access isn't available and needing to carry external hard drives or flash drives all the time due to insufficient internal storage is inconvenient.
@HarryT
That Dell netbook probably has one of those cheap JMicron SSDs. Even for its time, it was considered pretty bad (quite awful particularly when compared to the 1st gen Intel SSDs). Modern SSD's from Intel, Crucial and Samsung are pretty safe bets.