Background: I have spent some time re-building a catalog for a friend. The image and video files are on a NAS (Synology 1513+ with WD Red drives configured as RAID 6) and I've been using a PC to do the transfers from a multitude of external drives. He wants to run LR from an i-Mac which has an SSD so it is pretty quick, but I'm having some problems getting LR on the Mac to see the NAS files correctly so I'm stalled at the moment. To give him access to his files while I struggle with the NAS issue, I copied all the smart previews to an external 2.5 inch HD connected via USB3 since they are too big to fit on the Mac internal disk(s). It works, but he is very disappointed with the responsiveness of this temporary setup and I now suspect that the NAS over Gigabit Ethernet is not going to be as snappy as he is hoping either.
So much for the background, here are the questions...
1) He insists on having all his files in a single catalog which is currently around 350,000 (7+ Tb) and likely to grow much bigger still with an increasing number of movies. It wouldn't have been my choice and it's a PITA for loading and backing up, but can anyone tell me what bearing catalog size has on the speed of reviewing images, assuming that LR is running on an SSD?
2) Given the amount of data and the need for redundancy, the NAS seemed like the best option. I didn't expect it to be as responsive as a fast local drive but is there something I missed?
3) How would you configure the most responsive system?
4) Finally, is LR the best tool for this job?
Hope that's not too many questions but I'd really appreciate some advice on this. Many thanks in advance!
So much for the background, here are the questions...
1) He insists on having all his files in a single catalog which is currently around 350,000 (7+ Tb) and likely to grow much bigger still with an increasing number of movies. It wouldn't have been my choice and it's a PITA for loading and backing up, but can anyone tell me what bearing catalog size has on the speed of reviewing images, assuming that LR is running on an SSD?
2) Given the amount of data and the need for redundancy, the NAS seemed like the best option. I didn't expect it to be as responsive as a fast local drive but is there something I missed?
3) How would you configure the most responsive system?
4) Finally, is LR the best tool for this job?
Hope that's not too many questions but I'd really appreciate some advice on this. Many thanks in advance!