Lightroom is very slow over a network has been my experience. You're better off keeping your catalogue on your fixed disk.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Larry Colen > Sent: 01 June 2012 23:53 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: External storage of raw files > > 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. -- 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.
