ST-EOS
Active Member
Hello All
I'm considering the purchase of an iMac to use for LR and PS, using my existing Creative Cloud account. But I have a couple of concerns that hopefully someone on here will be able to advise me on.
My current image storage is on multiple HDD some internal (two x 5TB) with a 5TB external drive. The first of the two internal drives contains my master image files, these are backup to the second internal drive. The master drive is also backed up to the external drive.
I also have two SSD drives in the Windows PC, one has the Widows OS on it and all of the applications/programs. The second SSD contains a back up of the OS and as a scratch disk for PS.
My major concern is to understand the implications to using the current HDD's (both internal and external) on to a new iMac. Obviously the two internal HDD's would need to be in some form of enclosure.
But will the iMac recognise the ex Windows drives or will I need to create some form of transfer arrangements i.e. formatting one of the existing drives into Apple speak rather than Windows speak and then reloading the images to it.
How would I be best to arrange this transfer as I would hate to loose my image data. Also assuming that it is possible to make the conversion would my existing catalogue be transferable or would I need to create a new version.
TIA
Peter
I'm considering the purchase of an iMac to use for LR and PS, using my existing Creative Cloud account. But I have a couple of concerns that hopefully someone on here will be able to advise me on.
My current image storage is on multiple HDD some internal (two x 5TB) with a 5TB external drive. The first of the two internal drives contains my master image files, these are backup to the second internal drive. The master drive is also backed up to the external drive.
I also have two SSD drives in the Windows PC, one has the Widows OS on it and all of the applications/programs. The second SSD contains a back up of the OS and as a scratch disk for PS.
My major concern is to understand the implications to using the current HDD's (both internal and external) on to a new iMac. Obviously the two internal HDD's would need to be in some form of enclosure.
But will the iMac recognise the ex Windows drives or will I need to create some form of transfer arrangements i.e. formatting one of the existing drives into Apple speak rather than Windows speak and then reloading the images to it.
How would I be best to arrange this transfer as I would hate to loose my image data. Also assuming that it is possible to make the conversion would my existing catalogue be transferable or would I need to create a new version.
TIA
Peter