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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm curious what Calibre operations are disk intensive? The only time-consuming operation I've encountered is conversion, and that seems to be dominated by CPU speed rather than disk speed.
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Depends on the conversion.
I remember I had one conversion where the max execution time was limited to 10 minutes. On the same computer, the operation kept timing out with VM stored on HDD. Moved the VM to SSD and problem solved (conversion finished in 6 minutes). I've occasionally had to do batch conversions on my entire fanfic library (~3K+ at the time) and the SSD shaves a couple of hours from the conversion time.
Granted, I'm working on organizing and cleaning up a new fanfic library (after just letting downloaded epubs run amok in my Dropbox) and all the library duplication (for testing) and Save to Disk I do would be a major pain on HDD.
At the very least, I'd put metadata.db on SSD.