- Joined
- Jul 6, 2019
- Messages
- 19
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Cloud Service
- Lightroom Version Number
- 3.4
- Operating System
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
I’m about to upgrade my Mac (my 11 year old Mac Mini is long past its prime, stuck on High Sierra, and no longer compatible with Lightroom updates). I’m currently pricing options and debating how much of the Apple tax to pay on hard drive upgrades. It’s more difficult since the M1s aren‘t upgradable at all. Essentially the only reason for going 1TB over 512GB would be to store all copies locally. I’ve always done this because I could, but I’m wondering what I actually get for this and whether it’s really necessary.
I could still download smart profiles for everything (although it’s a desktop and I have very fast broadband so don’t really need offline). Does having the originals local offer any benefit over smart previews? Similarly, it doesn’t really seem to be much use as a backup, since the cloud catalogue is always the master and anyway it’s just the unadjusted originals.
I could store them on a NAS or an external drive, but don’t want to lose out on performance. Does Lightroom actually work off the originals or would it be working off other cached files that would be on the internal drive?
I could still download smart profiles for everything (although it’s a desktop and I have very fast broadband so don’t really need offline). Does having the originals local offer any benefit over smart previews? Similarly, it doesn’t really seem to be much use as a backup, since the cloud catalogue is always the master and anyway it’s just the unadjusted originals.
I could store them on a NAS or an external drive, but don’t want to lose out on performance. Does Lightroom actually work off the originals or would it be working off other cached files that would be on the internal drive?