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  1. 2012-04-25, 05:12 #1
    Bill50x
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    Scanning speed

    When I re-scan my entire collection, the speed is about 100-150 GB/hour. Is that what I can espect or is it too slow?

    I have a quite normal computer, Win7/8GB RAM/3GHz processor/2TB-disks etc.

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  2. 2012-04-25, 05:16 #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill50x View Post
    When I re-scan my entire collection, the speed is about 100-150 GB/hour. Is that what I can espect or is it too slow?

    I have a quite normal computer, Win7/8GB RAM/3GHz processor/2TB-disks etc.

    Rgrds / B
    that seems a bit slow. I can scan 70,000 files in an hour or less on my win7 setup. Which version of LMS are you using, as the scanning got much faster starting (I think) with 7.6.x and later versions. How is the 2TB disk connected. USB direct to the computer running LMS?

    edit: one win7 laptop I use is intel i7 CPU (2.67GHz, 4GB ram, 64 bit OS). I think my desktop is also i7, but may have more ram..... about the same scanning speed on both (or on my vortexbox units).
    Last edited by garym; 2012-04-25 at 05:18.
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  3. 2012-04-25, 06:20 #3
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    When I saw "100-150 GB/hour" I also thought that you music is stored upon USB drive or a slow NAS access over WIFI.

    Anyway I think that we are used to focus on number tracks here when comparing performance.

    You can see the LMS scan data for the last scan of my music collection.
    99% of my tracks are FLAC and artwork is stored pr directory. No cue files or playlist.

    Better point out that the scan below is from my work laptop (DELL M6600) which is much faster than my music server at home; the hardware listed in my signature takes about 6+ minutes.

    Discovering files/directories: E:\music (10651 of 10651) Complete 00:00:07
    Scanning new music files: E:\music (9123 of 9123) Complete 00:00:43
    Discovering playlists: C:\Users\jfm\Music\Playlists (1 of 1) Complete 00:00:00
    Pre-caching Artwork (719 of 719) Complete 00:00:10
    The server has finished scanning your media library.
    Total Time: 00:01:00 (Wednesday, March 28, 2012 / 10:33 AM)

    Note I have seen that defragmenting the harddrive can have positive effect. FYI I used my 6 core stationary at home to calculate gain values for all my library. So it was working on 6 tracks in parallel. Afterwards the rescan times was horrible.

    And yes the server version does also have and effect. I did some testing at some point.
    From memory (back then 8000 tracks)
    7.2/7.3 20 minutes
    7.4 18 minutes
    7.5 15 minutes
    7.6 5 minutes
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  4. 2012-04-25, 07:53 #4
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    another example, from my work desktop (win7, 64bit, intel i7 CPU, 2.8 GHz, 8GB RAM). About 30 minutes for 68,564 files for a complete clear and rescan. Files are on a 2TB eSATA disk attached to computer.


    Discovering files/directories: E:\All Music Files (75920 of 75920) Complete 00:01:30
    Scanning new music files: E:\All Music Files (68564 of 68564) Complete 00:25:21
    Discovering playlists: C:\Users\Music\Playlists (1 of 1) Complete 00:00:00
    Pre-caching Artwork (3344 of 3344) Complete 00:04:00

    The server has finished scanning your media library.
    Total Time: 00:30:51 (Wednesday, April 25, 2012 / 10:17 AM)
    Last edited by garym; 2012-04-25 at 10:04.
    Location 1: VortexBox Appliance 6TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet)
    Location 2: VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
    Office: Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.2 > SqueezePlay
    Spares: VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER
    Controllers: iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop
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  5. 2012-04-25, 09:52 #5
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    On my HP N36L microserver i scan 1TB of mostly flac files in 22 minutes (amd athlon neo 1,3GHz IGB of ram) .

    But storage is local to the machine , OS is ClearOS linux
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  6. 2012-04-25, 11:50 #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill50x View Post
    When I re-scan my entire collection, the speed is about 100-150 GB/hour. Is that what I can espect or is it too slow?

    I have a quite normal computer, Win7/8GB RAM/3GHz processor/2TB-disks etc.
    That's extremely slow. My system scans 34,605 FLAC files, 903 GB, in less than 12 minutes. Win2k3 SP2 32-bit, 3.16 GHz Xeon E3120, 4 GB RAM, with files on an internal 7200 RPM drive.


    Discovering files/directories: E:\Flac (38669 of 38669) Complete 00:00:20

    Scanning new music files: E:\Flac (34605 of 34605) Complete 00:09:02

    Discovering playlists: D:\slim\70\playlists (5 of 5) Complete 00:00:00

    Scanning new playlists: D:\slim\70\playlists (4 of 4) Complete 00:00:00

    Pre-caching Artwork (3044 of 3044) Complete 00:01:53

    The server has finished scanning your media library.
    Total Time: 00:11:15 (Wednesday, April 25, 2012 / 12:38 PM
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