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Originally Posted by DNSB
Most people seemed to agree with you. Suggesting an upgrade in memory and CPU and upgrading to a NVMe SSD was the consensus. Reducing the number of custom columns wa also popular.
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But backup important with SSD, not advance warning of total fail.
I have a hybrid 512 G SSD (NVMe PCIe) and 4,000 G SATA 3.5" HDD, with var and home on HDD partitions (16 G RAM). Calibre is very much faster than the 500 GB 5400 RPM 2.5" HDD on laptop (8G RAM).
But only 5260 approx titles, some in multiple formats. About 5 or 6 seconds to load 1st time, about 3 seconds to load on subsequent times on the Hybrid system, an Intel® Core™ i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8 with 4K screen. The Laptop is a Lenovo E460 i5 with HD screen, about 6 years old. It's fine too.
Both Linux Mint 20.1 with Mate. Win 7 on the laptop was far slower.
At the time I got the hybrid desktop (on a UPS), the 512 G NVMe was much better price/performance than 1T NVMe and the SATA SSD seem a lot slower.
My eldest grandson got a S/H Dell which had 1T SATA HDD but it also had a PCIe NVMe slot, so his dad paid for 512G and it's also setup now with OS on SSD but var and home mapped to two partitions on the HDD. Boot time reduced from 80s to 15s.