<div dir="ltr">About SSD topic, i would clarify one point : <div><br></div><div>- Hosting database on SSD is a very good idea. This will speed up database registration and queries.</div><div>- Hosting collection on SSD is not mandatory, but's it will improve time access to image of course.</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-11-20 12:57 GMT+01:00 Peter Mc Donough <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcd-mail-lists@gmx.net" target="_blank">mcd-mail-lists@gmx.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Am 19.11.2016 um 22:23 schrieb Uwe Haider:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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my Gentoo-Box is about 7 Years old - and so slow! Now I want new<br>
hardware. The speed of digikam and lightzone is important fpr me. Also<br>
the download of my pics from my Nikon/Olympus.<br>
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So, how can I optimize my hardware? A faster cpu? More RAM? Better GPU?<br>
Which is the best way to speed up digikam?<br>
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Download speed is dependent on your connection to the computer and basically irrelevant if you compare the time for "beautifying" one picture to to download time of a full storage card.<br>
I bought a usb3 compatible card reader and use it on a usb3 connector, the limiting factor is the storage card "read" speed.<br>
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Digikam can profit from CPU-cores. You graphics card should use openCL which accellerates processing, and you computer shoud be fine with 16GB of RAM, and most importantly an SSD where you should locate the digikam database and the pictures you currently work on.<br>
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If you have as many pictures as I have you will forget the idea of buying a big and therefore relatively expensive SSD just for photos which need that speed only when processed. In other words, you will still need an HDD.<br>
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Peter<br>
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