Thread: Help customize Calibre Portable for SSD
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Old 02-12-2019, 09:31 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
I have to say this - in my opinion you may be wasting your time. In times foregone, getting the metadata.db onto a faster device may have had some mileage, but I'm not sure that's true today.
I pretty much agree.

I recently moved from a dedicated 5400RPM HD to a SATAIII SSD (running at SATAII speeds, though; the second SATA port in my laptop turns out to be SATAII only) and my startup time is a few seconds faster (pretty much the difference in throughput of the two drives in loading the metadata DB).

Adding books is a bit faster, though, as are things like embedding metadata. Bulk saving of OPF files (calibredb backup_metadata) is a *lot* faster. That's the SSD handling small files a lot better than spinning metal. Conversions are a wash, probably because my system disk (and thus my temp dir) already was an SSD.

In all, the gains aren't as great as I'd hoped.
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