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Originally Posted by mbovenka
The 'spinning rust' bit actually matters less than you'd think. Calibre loads the metadata db into RAM at startup (so startup would be a bit slower), and searches and such are done on the in-memory copy. So only bulk updates would be slower, and you're not likely to do all that many of those.
RAM and CPU are more important, and 8GB RAM probably is pushing it with 1M database entries.
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Theoretically I would agree with you but in practice just going from sata hard drive to ssd with all else held equal reduced start up time and search time drastically. Searches that were in the average 30 seconds when I did the initial upgrade from spin disk to ssd went to 4 seconds average.
Going from old system in last few months with 1000 mbs nvme and 300,000+ books to new faster cpu and ram and 3500mbs nvme took searches from 4 seconds average to 2 seconds. last comparison is not apple to apple so it is harder to quantify reasons for performance increase than first one that the only difference was going from spin disk to standard ssd. Going from standard 550 mbs ssd to 1000mbs nvme really didn't seem to boost performance a lot when I did that upgrade on my old system. again maybe that had more to do with underlying motherboard as it was 8 years old or so even at that time. I think its about 12 years old now. Actually its the computer im on now. for most desktop tasks it is still super fast. Just limited in IO by older tech.