Thread: Question on Calibre's requirement for files to be local
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Old 10-27-2022, 08:23 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
That will work. I prefer a Hard drive for faster writes than Flash. But they cost 3X what that one does.
An external hard drive (mechanical, not SSD) is typically in the 120-ish MB/s range for reads and writes (writes being the slower of the two). This flash drive is faster than than. They quote up to 400MB/s reads, which probably equates to 150 MB/s real world numbers, but that still beats a mechanical hard drive.

The reason I am looking at moving Calibre to a flash drive is because my main desktop computer is sick at the moment. I am currently typing this post while running my entire OS off of flash memory plugged into a usb port on a spare computer. Booted from the usb flash drive. And it is quite fast. Amazingly so, actually. antiX Linux (v21) on this specific flash drive:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XHYVN62...roduct_details

This spare computer has Windows loaded on it's primary SSD, and that's not to my liking, so I went with booting Linux-from-usb-flash instead. Now I'm adding Calibre-on-flash until I can get my main computer back up and running reliably - it's looking more and more like motherboard problems Since I can't pull my Calibre library off of the dead computer, I will pull it off of my server that does our household backups instead - backups are done every 24 hours, and my Calibre library is up to date on the backup media. So, Calibre will come from backup media and copied to flash, and then plugged into the spare computer.
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