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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Does the processor make much difference to the running of Calibre? The speed of adding books in large batches?
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There was an update to Calibre a couple of years ago that sped up adding of large numbers of books *very* significantly.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=251076
In my experience, a decent processor and 6GB of RAM is plenty for adding books. I think (when looking at system monitor) that Calibre does use several separate threads when adding books, so it can benefit from multi-core, multi-thread processor.
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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Is it the speed of the hard drive that is important when adding books or is it the processor or a combination of the two?
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I do not think that the speed of the HDD is that important. There are other things you might want to do in Calibre where the speed difference between spinning rust and SSD is significant. Such as: bulk editing metadata(*), creating backups of your library, ... anything where you want to write thousands of small files.
(*) Calibre keeps a backup of metadata for each individual book in an *.opf file in the directory where the book is stored. But writting to those files is staggered, so a bulk metadata edit doesn't overwhelm the system with a slower disk.
You haven't asked about operating system.
I personally have a very good results with using Mint Linux as operating system to host my library (and many other things I need to do at home). In Linux you do not have to have an antivirus that will want to examine each of thousands little files before they are written to or read from the disk.