Thread: Soon SSD won't have space for Calibre data files (for import or export). What to do?
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Old 08-17-2020, 10:44 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
What's the reason for the SSD requirement? Internal hard disc drives, the old-fashioned kind with rotating magnetic media, are going for a song in the 500 GB size. You don't need the speed of SSD for calibre.

Back when I was a server admin we had a saying, "User files will expand to fill all available disk space."

So having some additional inexpensive rotating magnetic media can provide peace of mind.
Coz it'll be in a laptop, and with all the movement, I'm concerned that an HDD won't be as durable as an SSD.
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