James Rickert
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Hello,
My wife is a professional photographer (and the LR user!), whereas I am a point-n-shoot guy who is in to technology and networking.
We have reached a point where she no longer has space on her local machine for her work. Actually, we reached that point a while ago, and she's been shuffling photos from one drive to the next and back to local as a workaround.
I was going to purchase a Synology DS416 to solve the issue, but in reading some threads on here, it seems like that is not the right solution. Is there a good tutorial (or thread I wasn't able to find) that shows the best way to store a ~1TB library and catalog?
Part of the requirement is that she is able to work on photos here in the home studio, as well as in the client sites.
We'd prefer the one-time cost of a physical device + cloud backup, rather than a full-cloud solution.
She'd prefer not to carry around an external drive, but if that was the best solution, she would.
The NAS would be ideal as it could be used for other projects of mine and hers. But if it doesn't work well for LR, it no longer makes sense.
Would a 1TB SD card or USB drive permanently loaded in to the machine work?
She is on a 2016 Macbook with 256gb of storage, using the latest CC version. We have a good wired network at home (10Gb). She currently backs up to both GoogleDrive and BitCasa for redundancy, but would go down to one if we had a solid local solution.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
-Rick
My wife is a professional photographer (and the LR user!), whereas I am a point-n-shoot guy who is in to technology and networking.
We have reached a point where she no longer has space on her local machine for her work. Actually, we reached that point a while ago, and she's been shuffling photos from one drive to the next and back to local as a workaround.
I was going to purchase a Synology DS416 to solve the issue, but in reading some threads on here, it seems like that is not the right solution. Is there a good tutorial (or thread I wasn't able to find) that shows the best way to store a ~1TB library and catalog?
Part of the requirement is that she is able to work on photos here in the home studio, as well as in the client sites.
We'd prefer the one-time cost of a physical device + cloud backup, rather than a full-cloud solution.
She'd prefer not to carry around an external drive, but if that was the best solution, she would.
The NAS would be ideal as it could be used for other projects of mine and hers. But if it doesn't work well for LR, it no longer makes sense.
Would a 1TB SD card or USB drive permanently loaded in to the machine work?
She is on a 2016 Macbook with 256gb of storage, using the latest CC version. We have a good wired network at home (10Gb). She currently backs up to both GoogleDrive and BitCasa for redundancy, but would go down to one if we had a solid local solution.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
-Rick