On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > My budget box will have Windows 7 (Home Premium 64-bit) and Lightroom > 3 installed on it by this weekend, but I thought I would get your > advise on hard drive set-up/partitioning (if necessary) etc. > > I have an internal 7200 rpm Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB drive. I also > have a couple of older/slower internal HDs that I could make use of > (optionally). I think they are a 160GB and a 320GB ATA and PATA drive. > > I also will be using LaCie Minimus 2 TB hard drives externally via USB > 3.0. I plan to put all of my photos on one and use the other for > backup.
Whatever system you run, Lightroom performance always benefits from several things: - adequate RAM ... 4 to 8 G RAM is adequate, more than that unnecessary - a fast startup drive where applications and OS are located with plenty of free space (200G is about right on free space). This is very important. - a large Camera Raw cache space - 10G is about right for most people - locate the Lightroom catalog on the fastest drive. Locate the image files on a *separate* drive with a fast connection. Do not partition one drive into separate volumes and put the LR app on one of them and the image files on the other ... there's no performance benefit to that at all. Hope that helps. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
