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    I was wondering if anyone could offer feedback on using a external HD for storage and working with LR rather than local storage on the Mac..

    I'm looking into this as my 4tb Mac is currently 70% full of images even after doing some culling of old images

    What I would be looking at doing is removing all images from my HD onto the portable one then telling LR the new path of the images (backing up first ;o))

    Then all further image imports would be directly onto the separate drive..

    First, is moving all of the images from my HD to the portable doable and would LR be able to handle this?

    Second, does it effect the running speed of LR as all the images would need to pull off the separate drive ?
    :- Ian

    5D Mk III, 24-105 / 70-200 f2.8 L / 100-400 Mk II / 100 macro / 16-35 L / 11-24 L / 1.4 & 2x converters and a bad back carrying it all ;o)

    :- https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotosespana/

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    Re: Off Hard Drive storage

    I think I'm doing what you want to do but have you looked at getting a NAS? I use a Synology one with 6TB of storage mirrored and archive my shots on it. It works OK for me and you have the benefit of a bit of resilience. I keep an archive of older shots on there with only the last couple of months shots on my MBP dev to only having 12GB of storage locally...
    EOS 7D mk II, Sigma 150-660C, Canon 17-85 EF-S, Tamron 10-24 and a wife who shares my obsession.

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      #3
      Re: Off Hard Drive storage

      Originally posted by Tigger View Post
      I was wondering if anyone could offer feedback on using a external HD

      First, is moving all of the images from my HD to the portable doable and would LR be able to handle this?

      Second, does it effect the running speed of LR as all the images would need to pull off the separate drive ?
      First,
      Yes, you could copy the images across outside of LR, or from within LR The advantage of using LR is that the catalogue takes on the change of image location as the changes take place.

      Second
      I would keep the catalogue on the fastest drive (probably the internal Mac drive v) but I suppose that depends on the connectivity of the external HDD I'm not a Mac user so don't have knowledge of that connection method.
      On my PC I have two SSD drives (one mirrors the other) with my LR Catalogue on the first of these.
      My images are on internal HDD with back up to a second HDD which is then backed up to an external (USB3 connected) HDD.


      Peter

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        Re: Off Hard Drive storage

        cheers for the feedback Andy & Peter

        the HD on my Mac is a fast one as I upgraded to a mac fusion drive - so would need to look at something similar - I have also a fast output lead on my Mac so connecting should't be an issue

        Thanks Andy I'll check out the NAS Synology drives as 6tb would be ideal

        cheers guys lots to think about
        :- Ian

        5D Mk III, 24-105 / 70-200 f2.8 L / 100-400 Mk II / 100 macro / 16-35 L / 11-24 L / 1.4 & 2x converters and a bad back carrying it all ;o)

        :- https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotosespana/

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          Re: Off Hard Drive storage

          Originally posted by AndyMulhearn View Post
          I think I'm doing what you want to do but have you looked at getting a NAS? I use a Synology one with 6TB of storage mirrored and archive my shots on it. It works OK for me and you have the benefit of a bit of resilience. I keep an archive of older shots on there with only the last couple of months shots on my MBP dev to only having 12GB of storage locally...
          Andy which Synology product and drives are you using for your NAS


          Peter

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            #6
            Re: Off Hard Drive storage

            I have all my photos on a NAS drive (4TB) and run the LR catalogue from there, not seen much delay. I only use macbook pro and iMac
            Raj
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              Peter, the one I'm using is the DS214SE. This model https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS...tation+ds214se but with 3TB disks not 4...
              EOS 7D mk II, Sigma 150-660C, Canon 17-85 EF-S, Tamron 10-24 and a wife who shares my obsession.

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                Re: Off Hard Drive storage

                Originally posted by rajjayaraj View Post
                I have all my photos on a NAS drive (4TB) and run the LR catalogue from there, not seen much delay. I only use macbook pro and iMac
                Raj
                thanks Raj

                Originally posted by AndyMulhearn View Post
                Peter, the one I'm using is the DS214SE. This model https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS...tation+ds214se but with 3TB disks not 4...
                cheers Andy - just had a 4k tax refund so can spend ;o) ...although was hoping it would go on the 5Dmkiiii by now
                :- Ian

                5D Mk III, 24-105 / 70-200 f2.8 L / 100-400 Mk II / 100 macro / 16-35 L / 11-24 L / 1.4 & 2x converters and a bad back carrying it all ;o)

                :- https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotosespana/

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                  4k? Very nice.

                  The Synology I've been using has been very solid. It supports Timemachine too so I retired an old timecapsule at the same time.
                  EOS 7D mk II, Sigma 150-660C, Canon 17-85 EF-S, Tamron 10-24 and a wife who shares my obsession.

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                    Re: Off Hard Drive storage

                    Originally posted by AndyMulhearn View Post
                    4k? Very nice.

                    The Synology I've been using has been very solid. It supports Timemachine too so I retired an old timecapsule at the same time.
                    cheers about the refund, the only thing that always spoils this is the personal tax refund comes in around this time of the year, next month company tax comes out

                    appreciate all the feedback on the Synology I'll be checking some prices out later, but I'm sure it will probably going Amazon way...

                    I'll probably bump the thread when I get it for advice on moving folders and making sure LR plays correctly
                    :- Ian

                    5D Mk III, 24-105 / 70-200 f2.8 L / 100-400 Mk II / 100 macro / 16-35 L / 11-24 L / 1.4 & 2x converters and a bad back carrying it all ;o)

                    :- https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotosespana/

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