# Bye bye laptop? Am I ready?

**URL:** https://community.enginedj.com/t/bye-bye-laptop-am-i-ready/13015
**Category:** Standalone Controllers
**Tags:** engine-os, traktor, soundcloud, prime4
**Created:** [April 13, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/bye-bye-laptop-am-i-ready/13015 "2019-04-13T05:44:10Z")
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### Author: ![garrapeta](https://community.enginedj.com/user_avatar/community.enginedj.com/garrapeta/32/1879_2.png) [@garrapeta](https://community.enginedj.com/u/garrapeta)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/bye-bye-laptop-am-i-ready/13015/30 "2019-04-17T12:49:03Z")

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Being honest we can only speculate here as we (at least I) don’t know the details of the library db, but from observation, I suspect that is the case.

I wrote this comment in [Sluggish library browsing with huge library](https://community.enginedj.com/t/sluggish-library-browsing-with-huge-library/12481).

> It looks like about 20% of the time it takes to perform one operation is access to the drive, and 80% processing. Ie: I navigate to one album. The read LED of the drive flashes for less than 2 seconds. It will then stop flashing but it will take about 5 seconds to show results.

I don’t think hardware processing power is the issue as the SC5000 are powerful machines, and more capable of excellent pitch stretching on two tunes simultaneously, that I guess (speculating again) requires more processing power.

Also, in my limited experience navigation times on an SD drive are not much better than in mechanical drives, so I suspect it’s more about indexes, data structures and that kind of things.

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