GregJ
Greg Johnson
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2011
- Messages
- 647
- Location
- San Antonio, TX
- Lightroom Experience
- Power User
- Lightroom Version
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- Lightroom Version Number
- Latest Version of Classic via Adobe Cloud
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I built a top-end gaming rig 3 years ago to serve as my photography studio PC and am updating it this weekend with a new powerful Intel i9 10900K chip, Asus Hero 12 Motherboard, 64 GB Corsair 3600 Ram, and a new boot chip - the Seagate 2TB Firecuda 510 M.2 SSD. That will be my new boot drive and I will have to reload Windows, Adobe Creative Cloud, MS Office, Norton 360, Helicon Focus and all my other programs, etc.... I have also purchased a new 8TB Samsung QVO SATA SSD. That huge SSD will contain all of my images from a lifetime of shooting - about 5 TB of data, all linked by my LR catalog. Currently those images are all on one 8TB WD Black spinning hard drive, and of course backed up multiple times to other 8TB spinning hard drives (using GoodSync). Note: I do not use a Raid array and have my reasons for that. It is all on one big disk.
I write to sidecar, so all of my many tens of thousands (hundred thousand?) of raw files shot in the past 12 years all have sidecar files. The big challenge is that I will have to get my new LR set up and get the catalog linked to that new 8TB SSD with all my images.
I will use GoodSync to copy the 5TB of image files from my old spinning 8TB hard drive to the new 8TB SSD. It has been a dream of mine to have all of my images loaded on and operating from a SATA SSD, which is 5 times faster than the spinning hard drives I have been on for decades. LR is going to scream now with my files being on an SSD vs HDD, and also from all that Ram and all of those cores and threads on this powerful new chip.
The 8TB Samsung QVO is a technical marvel at about 100 bucks a TB, but it is SATA, not M.2. There will come a day when I will have an 8TB M.2 loaded on the Motherboard (vs SATA mounted inside the PC but outside the motherboard), but that day has not come. An 8TB M.2 would be astronomical in price. Anyway that is another story.
So once my 5TB of raw images and their sidecars are copied to the Samsung 8TB SSD and I have LR up and running on my new 2TB M.2, NVMe, PCIe SSD, I must then link the catalog to the 8TB SSD and that huge folder structure with thousands of folders and hundred thousand files.... This scares me and I am trying to prepare myself for this before I launch on Sunday. A friend of mine who is an IT guys and builds water-cooled rigs for fun is coming over in two days to help me, but he does not know LR and is not a photographer.
I did this 3 years ago when I built my gaming rig and had to do this, but I had trouble and it took me weeks (months) to get everything back in order.
The Lightroom Queen helped me then. I need help now. I had a windows programmer tell me that there is a file in the root directory that I must copy over and everything will instantly link. I point the catalog to the new D Drive, which will be the 8TB Samsung SSD, and everything will link as exactly before. Can that be true?
What is the best way to do this? This is serious stuff, and the annals of LightRoom history are littered with the corpses of people who tried and failed to sync their LR catalogue with a new drive full of a bazillion raw files and folders.
What is the easiest way?
Thanks,
Greg Johnson
San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums
I write to sidecar, so all of my many tens of thousands (hundred thousand?) of raw files shot in the past 12 years all have sidecar files. The big challenge is that I will have to get my new LR set up and get the catalog linked to that new 8TB SSD with all my images.
I will use GoodSync to copy the 5TB of image files from my old spinning 8TB hard drive to the new 8TB SSD. It has been a dream of mine to have all of my images loaded on and operating from a SATA SSD, which is 5 times faster than the spinning hard drives I have been on for decades. LR is going to scream now with my files being on an SSD vs HDD, and also from all that Ram and all of those cores and threads on this powerful new chip.
The 8TB Samsung QVO is a technical marvel at about 100 bucks a TB, but it is SATA, not M.2. There will come a day when I will have an 8TB M.2 loaded on the Motherboard (vs SATA mounted inside the PC but outside the motherboard), but that day has not come. An 8TB M.2 would be astronomical in price. Anyway that is another story.
So once my 5TB of raw images and their sidecars are copied to the Samsung 8TB SSD and I have LR up and running on my new 2TB M.2, NVMe, PCIe SSD, I must then link the catalog to the 8TB SSD and that huge folder structure with thousands of folders and hundred thousand files.... This scares me and I am trying to prepare myself for this before I launch on Sunday. A friend of mine who is an IT guys and builds water-cooled rigs for fun is coming over in two days to help me, but he does not know LR and is not a photographer.
I did this 3 years ago when I built my gaming rig and had to do this, but I had trouble and it took me weeks (months) to get everything back in order.
The Lightroom Queen helped me then. I need help now. I had a windows programmer tell me that there is a file in the root directory that I must copy over and everything will instantly link. I point the catalog to the new D Drive, which will be the 8TB Samsung SSD, and everything will link as exactly before. Can that be true?
What is the best way to do this? This is serious stuff, and the annals of LightRoom history are littered with the corpses of people who tried and failed to sync their LR catalogue with a new drive full of a bazillion raw files and folders.
What is the easiest way?
Thanks,
Greg Johnson
San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums