Lightroom catalog on flash disk

[sutejok]

<p>Hi,<br>

I'm just wondering, will it be any faster if i keep lightroom catalog on a usb flash disk (or an internal solid state drive) instead of on a regular hard drive? </p>

<p>Thx!<br>

Tejo </p>

[howard_m]

<p>the catalog requires being on something 'internal'. LR won't let you make/move/save-to a catalog on something the computer believes to be an external/removable drive. I think the SSD's are better (currently) suited to read-mostly/write-occasionally</p>

[digitaldog]

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<p>LR won't let you make/move/save-to a catalog on something the computer believes to be an external/removable drive.</p>

 

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<p>Sure it does. I run from an external, firewire buss driven drive on location all the time. </p>

<p>Tejo, the fastest such drive would be SSD which are very expensive but G-Tech has one (http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini-ssd.cfm). The question becomes, how much speed will you gain here? How disk intensive is LR versus processor intensive. That on the Mac, its 32 or 64 bit and the later appears to really help, I suspect there's more to its speed than just the drive. </p>

[sutejok]

<p>Ah I see. Thx Andrew and Howard </p>

[howard_m]

<p>sorry, just to clarify my poorly written response, I was really referring to network attached storage (ie. NFS, AFP) vs. eSata/USB which are basically single machine attach.</p>