What hardware?

[Gilles Caulier]

About SSD topic, i would clarify one point :

- Hosting database on SSD is a very good idea. This will speed up database
registration and queries.
- Hosting collection on SSD is not mandatory, but's it will improve time
access to image of course.

Gilles Caulier

2016-11-20 12:57 GMT+01:00 Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists at gmx.net>:

> Am 19.11.2016 um 22:23 schrieb Uwe Haider:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> my Gentoo-Box is about 7 Years old - and so slow! Now I want new
>> hardware. The speed of digikam and lightzone is important fpr me. Also
>> the download of my pics from my Nikon/Olympus.
>>
>> So, how can I optimize my hardware? A faster cpu? More RAM? Better GPU?
>> Which is the best way to speed up digikam?
>>
>>
> 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.
> I bought a usb3 compatible card reader and use it on a usb3 connector, the
> limiting factor is the storage card "read" speed.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> cu
> Peter
>
>
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