Would a memory upgrade help.....

[MaineBear]

I have a Beelink Ser5 mini computer with 16GB ram.  

It seems as though the fan is running at high speeds when I am using Launchbox.  When scrolling though box art and when editing titles and seaching for metadata I get lag.  My launchbox is on an external hard drive.

Would an upgrade to 32GB help?  Or moving Lauchbox to the internal hard drive?

Thanks for the advice.

[C-Beats]

8 hours ago, MaineBear said:

I have a Beelink Ser5 mini computer with 16GB ram.  

It seems as though the fan is running at high speeds when I am using Launchbox.  When scrolling though box art and when editing titles and seaching for metadata I get lag.  My launchbox is on an external hard drive.

Would an upgrade to 32GB help?  Or moving Lauchbox to the internal hard drive?

Thanks for the advice.

Fan running at high speed almost never has anything to do with RAM. Just means your computer is getting hot. Fans may also pre-emptively be cranked up when your CPU (or sometimes GPU) is working close to full capacity. Given that Beelinks are small PCs their airflow in general is pretty lacking and so their fans have to be running pretty hard all the time. That being said overall your symptoms point more to a CPU or drive issue than it does a memory one. 16gb on a Windows machine unfortunately is pretty slim these days given how wasteful the OS is, so I'm sure the RAM update wouldn't hurt but I'm not sure it'd solve all the issues you're seeing.

[faeran]

Moving LaunchBox to the internal hard drive is free for you to do and it would probably help with some of what you are seeing.