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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
...SD cards might be good for backups but they might be too slow for the Calibre library (like network drive level slow).
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"Too slow" is a very personal judgement and calibre is not overly impacted by the speed of the storage device. Most of calibre's work is managing a library is done in RAM.
I currently use calibre on a Windows tablet. My former device was a Dell Venue 8 Pro (32gb eMMC primmary storage & 64gb mSD card additional) and is now a MS Surface Go (128gb NVME SSD + 128gb mSD). On the old Dell, calibre was installed on the mSD card and the library was on the mSD card as well. With the Go, calibre installed on the main SSD, but the library is still on the mSD.
I have no issues with using calibre on the Go for library management, format conversion, and editing. File saves when using the editor are only slightly slower than on my "big desktop" (Win10, 8gb RAM, i7, 1Tb fast HDD). After all, ebooks are rather small files. Performance on the old Dell was decent, though application launch time was a bit slow. Once running, it performed well with the only noticeable slowness occuring when saving metadata into a file or doing format conversions.