mcasan
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The Lr Classic 8.4 update had me thinking of ways to speed up my 2017 iMac. I had already done a total reinstall of MacOS a few weeks ago. Then I replaced the standard 2400MHz memory with 32GB of 2666MHz which the iMac has recognized and used without problem. I set the LR Preferences to use the GPU for display and editing.
So that left one large area that needed improvement: storage hardware.
My iMac has an NVMe SSD for OS/boot/apps. Finally bite the bullet. I am moving all my data (/Pictures, Documents, Music,…etc.) off my hard disk RAID O and onto a NVMe SSD RAID 0. The new RAID is two Intel 660P NVMe SSDs sitting in a Nestor NA611TB3 enclosure. After I installed the SSDs, hooked them via TB3 to my iMac, powered up and formatted them as APFS, I make them into a RAID 0 with MacOS RAID Assistant. I then ran Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on them. Both the read and write were in the 2000MBs range. Of course those are sequential tests that give highest numbers. But those scores beat my Samsung EVO doing 500MBs via SATA connection or my old RAID 0 that was made of a pair of WD Red drives. The only HDD I will end up with is the 8TB HDD used by Time Machine to backup the entire file system.
Oh the times they are a changing…
So that left one large area that needed improvement: storage hardware.
My iMac has an NVMe SSD for OS/boot/apps. Finally bite the bullet. I am moving all my data (/Pictures, Documents, Music,…etc.) off my hard disk RAID O and onto a NVMe SSD RAID 0. The new RAID is two Intel 660P NVMe SSDs sitting in a Nestor NA611TB3 enclosure. After I installed the SSDs, hooked them via TB3 to my iMac, powered up and formatted them as APFS, I make them into a RAID 0 with MacOS RAID Assistant. I then ran Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on them. Both the read and write were in the 2000MBs range. Of course those are sequential tests that give highest numbers. But those scores beat my Samsung EVO doing 500MBs via SATA connection or my old RAID 0 that was made of a pair of WD Red drives. The only HDD I will end up with is the 8TB HDD used by Time Machine to backup the entire file system.
Oh the times they are a changing…