p.1 #5 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
OS/LR/Catalog on SSD.
I create a catalog for each wedding/event. I work on the latest wedding/event on the SSD and transfer the files to the backup HHD when complete. Makes editing a breeze.
p.1 #7 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
OS, LR and shoot images on SSD then images move to a SATA 3 drive for storage after the commission is completed a mirrored copy resides on a NAS as a safe guard.
p.1 #9 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
Adobe recommends this site Will SSD Improve Lightroom Performance for evaluating the impact of SSDs on Lightroom. There are some great charts showing the times to import and render 300 Canon 5D MkII raw photos depending on the location of LR, catalog, cache & images.
p.1 #10 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
visnew wrote:
Adobe recommends this site Will SSD Improve Lightroom Performance for evaluating the impact of SSDs on Lightroom. There are some great charts showing the times to import and render 300 Canon 5D MkII raw photos depending on the location of LR, catalog, cache & images.
p.1 #13 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
To be honest, I tried a few different configurations and there was no difference in speed. Each system's bottleneck will be where you see the resulting difference; and most likely, that will not be the drives themselves. It's usually in the mobo's speed rate between drives or your ram. For that reason (and taking ram out of the equation), I have everything on 2 RAID 0 SSD's. They're backed up to another drive daily. (to minimize loss of work) I've tried splitting things up. It didn't make a difference. In the end, I wanted more OS room, so I went back to RAID. All drives (OS/Data/External) are running at 6gbs. No matter how I configure LR/OS/Cache/Files, they run the same. So, it'll boil down to where your bottleneck is... if you have one. (ie: </= 3gbs data rate, etc) Luckily, I don't really have one outside the processor.
p.1 #14 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
My MBP has a 256GB SSD for its main drive(OS and Apps) and a 750GB 5400rpm drive for storage.
Would it be recommended to put the Cache on the SSD or the 750GB storage drive?
p.1 #17 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
ChadAndreo wrote:
My MBP has a 256GB SSD for its main drive(OS and Apps) and a 750GB 5400rpm drive for storage.
Would it be recommended to put the Cache on the SSD or the 750GB storage drive?
If you want to get the most gain of having an SSD on your computer, have the app, catalog/previews, and your cache on the 256GB SSD. Unfortunately, Lightroom's biggest bottleneck is still processor/ram speed. It still does a piss poor job of utilizing multiple cores and utilizes only ~50% of my quad core when doing most of it's operations. Other programs, like Nik Software or Genuine Fractals utilize about ~90% when doing most of it's operations.
p.1 #20 · Those with SSDs: What's your strategy for LR, Photoshop etc?
SSD: OS/LR/PS
HDD1 VELOCIRAPTOR: JPG FILES I AM WORKING ON FOR INDESIGN ...
HDD2 7200: CACHE/LR CATALOGUE/PS VIRTUAL MEMORY
HDD3: RAW
EXTERNAL HDD1 WITH BACK UP OF HDD1, HDD2 (NOT THE CACHE) & HDD3
EXTERNAL HDD2: CLONE OF SSD
Well, I decided to do this which may not be the best configuration and my mac pro 1.1 with snow leopard and 13GB of RAM (20GB soon) is a lot of faster than when I was "stupid"
Should I do something about HDD2 with cache, LR catalogue and PS virtual memory being in the same HDD ??
