I am not yet up to "Novice" standard frown But I have placed all files on an external USB 3.1 Gen 2 SSD Device and, unless I am mistaken - could easily be smile - I am fairly sure that such a USB connection is 10 Gbps which outstrips Internal SATA 6 Gbps. Everything seems to work rather quickly - to my 75 year old eyes. Surely a new PC might have such a port?

This time around, I purchased the Band-in-a-Box UltraPAK+ and used the supplied master_realtracks_installer_2020 which installed a bucket load of files on the SSD.
Don't know if that helps or hinders, but just my 2 penny worth.

Regards.

Maurice.