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Any advice for better performance with 100K + emails?
I am looking for any advice to improve performance on an existing setup with 100K + emails in 100s of folders spanning more than 10 years. Deleting email is not an option.
Several are in local folders, some in IMAP accounts. The system is a Windows PC with plenty of RAM, and an SSD.
I am thinking dedicating a RAID-0 local array (2 local recent, speedier SSDs) and looking at using RAM for swap/temporary space.
I am also going to remove all .MSF files and reindex emails, other than that are there any suggestions to make this setup faster? Any help would be appreciated.
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To start, I suggest working through this list of sources of performance issues. As you can see, there are many possibilities, and in your case it could be as simple as turning off Windows indexing or rebuilding the global search database.
I would add, the idea of removing .msf to help performance issues is for the most part a myth IMO. The only area I see it helping is a corrupted file, which should be extremely rare.
p.s. 100k message over 100s of folders isn't excessive, and you shouldn't expect major issues - unless you happen to hit certain performance bugs.
I have an EVO 500gb SSD on an oldish thinkpad 520, and performance is brilliant. If what Thunderbird is reporting per account is accurate, I have ~300k messages between local and imap.