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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Which Operating System do you use, what type of interface is the external drive connected to, and how is it formatted? And, which calibre functions are unresponsive… e.g. starting, sorting searching, conversion, viewing, book editing etc?
I have a 1.3TB 150,000 'book' calibre library (video and audio clips) on an external USB 3.0 HDD drive, I can't discern any performance differential between it and my 4,000 book calibre 3.1GB library that sits on an internal SATA 3.x HDD drive… e.g. switching between them is sub 3 seconds either way.
For Old Curiosities sake I transferred my Books library onto my SDD, once again I couldn't discern any performance differential.
calibre is closer to Cairo than Giza.
BR
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Hello,
Thank you for your response. I just purchased a new computer windows 11, i7-14700 2.10ghz, with 16.0gb of ram installed. Everything runs great. My library was in the wrong place and running off the cloud. I moved it to an external drive and now when I search it freezes, when I sort it freezes. Any command causes it to freeze. Even adding books is slow. The external hard drive that it is on is a Western Digital drive. I have a Seagate 4TB I don't know the formatting sorry not very computer savvy. But, I learn well.
Question:
1; What type of drive do I purchase and move it to so that I don't run into any performance concerns?
2. How big should the storage be on the external drive?
I am so confused about this. Thank you for all of your help.