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I'll be getting a 128GB SSD just for this purpose. I'm fairly certain the difference is worth the $100 for the SSD. unraring and repairing is disk heavy, so a SSD should help. Anyway, will buy, test and report back.

As all my PC upgrades are done for this year (except for this one), I'm considering getting an SSD just for Sabnzb as a download + extraction drive. That is, download and extract to the SSD only. Would that seriously speed up extraction speeds? Right now, a 15GB linux .iso takes 2min 20sec to unrar ...

Well the issue is mute. I'm leaving everything as it is and building a $300 HTPC. I'll put up with the extra min or two. So the temp folder unrars to the green drive? Interesting. I always thought the 500GB unrars to itself, then moves to the green drive - ?

Well I'm replacing the 500GB HDD with a 128GB SSD. If the 3TB fills I'll buy a few 4TB's. No problems there. I just want to slash speeds. Seeing as the temp drive is where the extraction happens, adding an SSD should boost speeds a lot.

So I'm currently upgrading my systems and my Usenet box has these specs: - A8 3870k @ 3.0GHz - 8GB DDR3 1333MHz - Samsung 830 256GB SSD (system disk, SAB is installed here) - 500GB Seagate (temp download, extraction drive) - 3TB WD Green (final extraction drive) With 8GB+ .iso's taking 2.5min-3min a...