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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
I find SSDs make a pretty big difference for Calibre. SSHDs work by caching data that's used repetitively so I don't think it will speed up a lot of the tasks dealing with a ton of small files that Calibre does.
Does your PC not have a spare SATA3 port and space so you can install an extra drive? Or heck, maybe use a USB3 SSD for Calibre. I find the biggest improvement that SSDs bring isn't the 500+ MB/s sequential speed but that their random small block read/write isn't a paltry 1-3MB/s as is the case for most HDDs.
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Yep plenty of ports. I have been keeping the whole library on only one drive though for ease of use and backup. Have a 1tb ssd right now. Maybe another 4 months before it is full. I could probably delete a bunch of stuff off to give me more time but the amount of effort needed to do that is not going to be fun. Would rather just buy a larger drive. Sadly I don't have the money at this time to pop for a 2tb ssd.
So I was wondering about a sshd. I might do it just to find out and measure the differences. Going from a standard drive i saw major reductions in time for searches, as well as adding books, metadata changes in bulk. I hate to give much of that up. Conversions I'm not so worried about as I think as spoken of here that it is more cpu bound and though fast im still only pushing a 2.5 ghz xeon
Sigh just took a moment to look at upgrading my cpu and it isn't worth it.. E5 1265 vs3 2.5 ghz cpu is only about 10% behind performance of a i7 3770 which is the fastest cpu that will go in my mother board that I can tell. Price is to much still to bother for only a 10% cpu gain. im pushing 8000ish cpu marks so can't complain for 5 year old computer. It's funny but It would cost me more now to build the same computer. Ram is higher, used cpu of the model I have is more than I spent on it new. hard drives are pretty much the only thing cheaper than then for the same item.