I've got several related issues that may have a single solution: I've got about 4.5TB of raw PEFs on two drives. Both drives are starting to get full.
I'm very tempted to convert my library of raw files from PEF to DNG. Zab's new laptop, a 17" macbook pro has more processing power than my iMac and my desktop LInux box combined. When we upgrade the memory, it'll have more memory than all of my computers combined. When it's available, or I have a large number of photos to process, it would be handy to be able to use it, rather than my iMac. I just changed to LR4, and LR4.1, so my system is somewhat in flux as I've got various catalogs that haven't been updated yet, and I will want to split sub catalogs (aikido, music, current working etc.) out from the massive "everything" catalog. So, if I'm going to make any radical changes, this is a good time to do so. My gut feeling is that the right way to do this is some sort of external drive that I can share between the two machines for storing all the RAW files. I suspect that I'll want some sort of box with gigabit ethernet on one end, and several sata drives on the other end. My current drives can become backups. As to the catalogs themselves, I'll just do something careful and clever so that I've got the necessary working catalog on whichever machine I'm using, and sync things up with import from catalog. I'm looking for suggestions as to general plan (for example, gigabit NAS), as well as specifics (Todd's Network storage and fish market has the whizzbo cottystack on sale for $200 this week) on how I should go about doing this. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
