SSD!, was: Re: What hardware?

[Boudewijn]

On Saturday, November 19, 2016 11:37:29 PM CET maderios wrote:
> On 11/19/2016 10:23 PM, Uwe Haider wrote:
> > So, how can I optimize my hardware? A faster cpu? More RAM? Better GPU?
> > Which is the best way to speed up digikam?
> 
> Hi
> I know that hardrive slows down digikam db.
> SSD is better.

I second (third? xth?) SSD. 

I run DK on my main PC that doubles as NAS with spinning drives in RAID5. It's on DK4 
for less than a year. My laptop (an oldish X201) has access to DK5.2 via repositories, so I 
took the plunge and started using DK5 with the collections mounted over SSHFS and the 
database local on SSD. It took about a day to read all pictures and import them to the 
database. 

When 5.3 came available as appimage, I tried it on my PC. I imagined importing would 
take just a couple of hours, as there would be no network and SSH overhead. Wrong! It 
took 2 or 3 days, and I blame my setup with database on spinning disks for it. 

(My first upgrade will be an SSD ;-) After the initial load it is very workable though, even 
with spinning disks. I am very happy with postponed writing of metadata to files (and 
many other things :-) )!)

Have fun selecting components, and best regards,

Boudewijn
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