Ingest Modules are slow

How do you get the ingest Modules to run in a reasonable amount of time. I left my computer on over night and selected two modules to run, only one got part way through. I’ve shut down and restarted but it’s taking hours for each module to run.

The speed depends on many factors, including:

  • Types of drives (network is really slow. SSD is fastest)
  • Are the images and case folder on different drives
  • what modules are enabled
  • How many cores you have

You can see progress using the Ingest Snapshot under the Help menu.

In general, the way the course is setup makes it take much longer than normal because it runs only a set of modules at a time instead of all of them. That means that you take the I/O hit more often.