Thread: Is it possible to specify a different location for matadata.db?
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Old 10-26-2024, 07:27 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by capink View Post
For a laptops with both SDD/NVMe and HDD, if your library is large and cannot fit into SDD, putting the metadata.db alone on SDD can provide a performance boost.
Very marginal boost - I had it on 300GB 100K+ 'book' library full of AV clips and transcripts - no discernible difference. Main advantage was when the library was on an external USB drive I could view the library as a catalogue even though the USB was powered down. IIRC I could even edit metadata; the lazy writes would happen when the USB came back on line and I switched to that library.

It's now on an internal 4TB SATA 3.3 drive. If I start calibre on that library (now over 150K 'books') its ready in under 5 secs - which is 1-2 secs longer than opening the default library with one book, one format, and no custom columns.

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