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audeojude · 01-25-2018, 10:28 AM

So almost a year later and I can see the handwriting on the wall that I will need to get a new hard drive for my calibre library. I'm down to 130 gigs free space on my 1tb samsung SSD that the library resides on. I can't see going back to a standard HD but I don't think I can afford a larger SSD. Has anyone put their large calibre library on a SSHD drive and have a feeling for comparison between a standard drive, a hybrid SSHD or a standard SSD?

Digression that really doesn't have anything to do with calibre directly, so you can just ignore if you want.

On another note I am still using my same computer that I commented on in an earlier post on this thread, and I am still really happy with it's performance in general. I built the system in march of 2013 so I am right at the 5 year mark with this computer with no upgrades other that putting in a larger SSD for the OS and a larger one for the calibre library over that period of time. (actually I got a larger 1tb drive for calibre and moved the old 512GB ssd calibre was using to the OS Drive.

I do get chip envy once in a while as I have built some nice PC's for a some of my clients with M2 drives and 20 core 3.5 to 4 GHZ i7 cpu's etc.. They are faster and I love them but I have yet to be unhappy with the performance of my 8 year old computer. Really the only thing that would make much difference to me would be more ram, the new USB 3.1 speeds or going to a M2 drive running at 3500 MB/s

Actually I would be willing to bet a current 3000 dollar computer would only give me about 30% performance gain and in reality maybe only a perceived 5 to 10 percent improvement over my 5 year old 1200 dollar computer (only circumstance this wouldn't hold true for is games). Honestly I and my customers have been really happy with long term perceived performance where they went with high end performance on purchase. Most computers 1/2 to 2/3 the cost bought in the same time frame are being replaced due to how slow they now run with all the OS updates (like going to windows 10, or even running windows 7 with all the years of service packs and updates) and other issues. You can tell the High end PC's don't run as snappy as they did 5 years ago but they still run fast enough that none of the users are bothered at all.

01-25-2018, 10:28 AM	#21
audeojude Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 489964 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Deep South Device: 4 or 5 generations of kindles	So almost a year later and I can see the handwriting on the wall that I will need to get a new hard drive for my calibre library. I'm down to 130 gigs free space on my 1tb samsung SSD that the library resides on. I can't see going back to a standard HD but I don't think I can afford a larger SSD. Has anyone put their large calibre library on a SSHD drive and have a feeling for comparison between a standard drive, a hybrid SSHD or a standard SSD? Digression that really doesn't have anything to do with calibre directly, so you can just ignore if you want. On another note I am still using my same computer that I commented on in an earlier post on this thread, and I am still really happy with it's performance in general. I built the system in march of 2013 so I am right at the 5 year mark with this computer with no upgrades other that putting in a larger SSD for the OS and a larger one for the calibre library over that period of time. (actually I got a larger 1tb drive for calibre and moved the old 512GB ssd calibre was using to the OS Drive. I do get chip envy once in a while as I have built some nice PC's for a some of my clients with M2 drives and 20 core 3.5 to 4 GHZ i7 cpu's etc.. They are faster and I love them but I have yet to be unhappy with the performance of my 8 year old computer. Really the only thing that would make much difference to me would be more ram, the new USB 3.1 speeds or going to a M2 drive running at 3500 MB/s Actually I would be willing to bet a current 3000 dollar computer would only give me about 30% performance gain and in reality maybe only a perceived 5 to 10 percent improvement over my 5 year old 1200 dollar computer (only circumstance this wouldn't hold true for is games). Honestly I and my customers have been really happy with long term perceived performance where they went with high end performance on purchase. Most computers 1/2 to 2/3 the cost bought in the same time frame are being replaced due to how slow they now run with all the OS updates (like going to windows 10, or even running windows 7 with all the years of service packs and updates) and other issues. You can tell the High end PC's don't run as snappy as they did 5 years ago but they still run fast enough that none of the users are bothered at all.