LIGISTX
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I am new here, but I have been working with lightroom some for about a year now. I am far from pro, heck, even saying novice may be a stretch. That being said, I am a huge tech junky and am currently setting up a new NAS under FreeNAS to store my pictures as well as other stuff.
My current workflow is to say the least, totally horrible. I am a young professional and due to my work location I am at my apt half the time and the other half at my parents house. Suffice it to say, working out of two places is a huge PITA. This will soon be changing as I have a new job lined up and I will be a bit far away from the rents and will be more elusively using my computer.
Since I have never been stationary since college when I wasn't a big camera buff, I have never even bothered to set up lightroom in a well thought out way. So I will be starting from 100% scratch here. I have all my images, but I will be creating a new catalog and everything. I have about 1 TB of images for reference.
I plan to store these on a new NAS I will be building soon, it should be plenty fast, if you are unfamiliar with FreeNAS is a very robust and resilient solution, but it takes some solid hardware to run it. Point is, IT IN ITSELF will not be my issue, but my gigabit Ethernet may be, which is why I am inquiring about some potential things before I try them out (the nas should be able to saturate gigabit MANY MANY times over).
Firstly, let me lay out the current plan. As stated I will store all images on the NAS, imported through lightroom which I plan to have create 1:1 previews upon import (I also plan to import all 1TB of photos and have it create 1:1 previews, yea, that will take a week, or 2....). First question here, how big will this make my catalog? I can easily dedicate say 120 gigs to my lightroom catalog, but if a 1:1 preview is say 50% of the original image in size, that won't work, it will be to large. Assuming my plan would work, this should allow me to navigate around my library as if it was on local storage, correct?
Assuming that plan doesn't work, would making it import as a smart preview afford the level of performance I am after? I really want to be able to just move through the YEARS of photos with ease, as if it was all on local SSD. Would that reduce the catalog size to be reasonable as well?
Also, seeing as I am totally new to this aspect of lightroom, any other advice anyone can provide would be awesome.
Also, being new here, any specific threads or other forums anyone can point me to that would help for this firstly, and also just becoming a better photographer/editor, that would be amazing. I have great gear, but that is not even half the story of being a good photographer. I could definitely use some skill honing
Thanks!
My current workflow is to say the least, totally horrible. I am a young professional and due to my work location I am at my apt half the time and the other half at my parents house. Suffice it to say, working out of two places is a huge PITA. This will soon be changing as I have a new job lined up and I will be a bit far away from the rents and will be more elusively using my computer.
Since I have never been stationary since college when I wasn't a big camera buff, I have never even bothered to set up lightroom in a well thought out way. So I will be starting from 100% scratch here. I have all my images, but I will be creating a new catalog and everything. I have about 1 TB of images for reference.
I plan to store these on a new NAS I will be building soon, it should be plenty fast, if you are unfamiliar with FreeNAS is a very robust and resilient solution, but it takes some solid hardware to run it. Point is, IT IN ITSELF will not be my issue, but my gigabit Ethernet may be, which is why I am inquiring about some potential things before I try them out (the nas should be able to saturate gigabit MANY MANY times over).
Firstly, let me lay out the current plan. As stated I will store all images on the NAS, imported through lightroom which I plan to have create 1:1 previews upon import (I also plan to import all 1TB of photos and have it create 1:1 previews, yea, that will take a week, or 2....). First question here, how big will this make my catalog? I can easily dedicate say 120 gigs to my lightroom catalog, but if a 1:1 preview is say 50% of the original image in size, that won't work, it will be to large. Assuming my plan would work, this should allow me to navigate around my library as if it was on local storage, correct?
Assuming that plan doesn't work, would making it import as a smart preview afford the level of performance I am after? I really want to be able to just move through the YEARS of photos with ease, as if it was all on local SSD. Would that reduce the catalog size to be reasonable as well?
Also, seeing as I am totally new to this aspect of lightroom, any other advice anyone can provide would be awesome.
Also, being new here, any specific threads or other forums anyone can point me to that would help for this firstly, and also just becoming a better photographer/editor, that would be amazing. I have great gear, but that is not even half the story of being a good photographer. I could definitely use some skill honing
Thanks!