Get a big capacity drive and partition it so that you only use the faster outer half for your images. That\'ll increase the average transfer rates and decrease the average access times. Just look at the chart above posted by aubsxc. The slower half can still be used for other things such as a bootable clone of your system drive.
However, to get really fast external storage will cost you.
You would need to use SSDs or some sort of RAID-like arrangement of good HDDs. An expensive option is a thunderbolt to PCIe adapter box containing a 960GB OWC Accelsior SSD PCIe card. Super fast at 500-600 MB/s.
I opted for a drobo 5d but I was delayed first by a lack of drobos and then by the need to upgrade my OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Mountain Lion to work with the drobo on thunderbolt, and all of the hassles associated with that change. I\'m looking forward to reasonable speed and double drive redundancy. I\'ve filled it with 3TB HDDs and an SSD and will partition it to suit various requirements with the photo data partition on the fastest part of the HDDs. The Lr catalog and caches will remain on an internal SSD but will be backed up to a separate partition on the drobo.
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That last paragraph shows a complete misunderstanding of what can be done with a drobo 5d. In fact, it gives me very little control of the number and size of partitions (volumes) and no control over which parts of the drives are used. That means I cannot force it use the fastest parts of the drives. It\'s not particularly to this thread now but I\'ll have to totally rethink my use of a drobo.
Get a big capacity drive and partition it so that you only use the faster outer half for your images. That\'ll increase the average transfer rates and decrease the average access times. Just look at the chart above posted by aubsxc. The slower half can still be used for other things such as a bootable clone of your system drive.
However, to get really fast external storage will cost you.
You would need to use SSDs or some sort of RAID-like arrangement of good HDDs. An expensive option is a thunderbolt to PCIe adapter box containing a 960GB OWC Accelsior SSD PCIe card. Super fast at 500-600 MB/s.
I opted for a drobo 5d but I was delayed first by a lack of drobos and then by the need to upgrade my OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Mountain Lion to work with the drobo on thunderbolt, and all of the hassles associated with that change. I\'m looking forward to reasonable speed and double drive redundancy. I\'ve filled it with 3TB HDDs and an SSD and will partition it to suit various requirements with the photo data partition on the fastest part of the HDDs. The Lr catalog and caches will remain on an internal SSD but will be backed up to a separate partition on the drobo.
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That last paragraph shows a complete misunderstanding of what can be done with a drobo 5d. In fact, it gives me very little control of the number and size of partitions (volumes) and no control over which parts of the drives are used. That means I cannot force it use the fastest parts of the drives. It\'s not particularly to this thread now but I\'ll have to totally rethink my use of a drobo.
Get a big capacity drive and partition it so that you only use the faster outer half for your images. That\'ll increase the average transfer rates and decrease the average access times. Just look at the chart above posted by aubsxc. The slower half can still be used for other things such as a bootable clone of your system drive.
However, to get really fast external storage will cost you.
You would need to use SSDs or some sort of RAID-like arrangement of good HDDs. An expensive option is a thunderbolt to PCIe adapter box containing a 960GB OWC Accelsior SSD PCIe card. Super fast at 500-600 MB/s.
I opted for a drobo 5d but I was delayed first by a lack of drobos and then by the need to upgrade my OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Mountain Lion to work with the drobo on thunderbolt, and all of the hassles associated with that change. I\'m looking forward to reasonable speed and double drive redundancy. I\'ve filled it with 3TB HDDs and an SSD and will partition it to suit various requirements with the photo data partition on the fastest part of the HDDs. The Lr catalog and caches will remain on an internal SSD but will be backed up to a separate partition on the drobo.
Jan 14, 2013 at 01:57 AM
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