On Apr 2, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:30:37PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote:
Oh, and I agree entirely on the external drive issue, love them and
other than the wall wart issue (they multiply) external drives are
much easier to deal with than adding internals. Currently running
2.7TB of drive space on a system with a 320GB boot drive with 1140GB
of that in external cases.
Do you not see performance disadvantages to external drives?
Not much if any. It depends on the speed of the external drives and
the hardware interface, and how you organize LR's configuration.
If you site the Lightroom catalog on your internal hard drive and the
file repository on external drives, you maximize performance as it
will only read from the file repository (unless you tell it to save
the metadata out to the files or sidecar files themselves) and it does
all read/write operations to the faster internal drive. And it doesn't
have to use the same heads to do both.
With FW800, it's pretty darn close to a wash with regard to internal
iMac data transfer speeds anyway.
Godfrey
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