I haven't used thunderbolt, but find USB3 to be very fast. I routinely get 50mb/s with a slow 5400rpm external drive. A massive improvement over USB2 indeed.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:12:06PM +1200, David Mann wrote: >> On Sep 9, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I do have copies of all my raw files stored on other disks, >> > but not in a conveniently accessed manner. >> >> That's not such a bad thing. I read a news article recently about a couple >> who were burgled. They kept their backup drive next to their laptop so both >> were pinched together and they've lost all of their digital photos. > > I meant not conveniently accessed as in they are not sorted out > in the same way as in lightroom. Most of my disks are all in > the same room. > > You do bring up a good point that I should move one of the > systems elsewhere. > >> >> > I am going to need to explore thunderbolt storage options. >> > Unfortunately they are not nearly as inexpensive as usb 3 or >> > firewire. >> >> If it's going to be a spinning disk I'd suggest USB3. I'm pulling this out >> of my arse but I doubt you'd get any speed improvement for the extra money >> if you used Thunderbolt or Firewire. > > I just heard back from kingwin tech support and now have the > double toaster working. Silly me, I didn't know that what I needed > was the setting labeled JBOD in the manual. It turns out that > JBOD is "Just a Bunch Of Disks". So, I know have a drop in mount > for two SATA drives. I could put in a 4TB spinny for primary storage > of raw files, and an SSD for my catalog (to guarantee my catalog is > always on SSD). > > Looking at this, there doesn't seem to be much disadvantage to > using usb3 versus thunderbolt. > > http://www.everythingusb.com/comparison.html >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.
