- Joined
- Jul 26, 2020
- Messages
- 9
- Location
- Gloucester, UK
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 9.3
- Operating System
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
In the early stages of looking to upgrade to a new Mac Mini. As part of my cost analysis, I'm looking into the variety of storage options I have in order to try and avoid giving Apple more money than necessary...
If I was to put the Lightroom catalog on an external hard drive, is there any real world benefit in going Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C? If I look at the Samsung X5 against the T5, raw tests suggest a five-fold performance improvement. But this performance improvement comes with a price tag of an extra £220 on the 1TB versions at which point paying Apple £200 to double the internal SSD becomes a viable option. It's not clear to me if Lightroom is performant enough to make use of T3's extra bandwidth.
To be clear, my images are stored on an 18TB NAS. The Mac Mini storage would only be used to store the catalog file (115k images), the previews file, the sync files and any images that are being worked on (my workflow is to import to local drive, work on them and then move them to the NAS once I have finished processing them).
If I was to put the Lightroom catalog on an external hard drive, is there any real world benefit in going Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C? If I look at the Samsung X5 against the T5, raw tests suggest a five-fold performance improvement. But this performance improvement comes with a price tag of an extra £220 on the 1TB versions at which point paying Apple £200 to double the internal SSD becomes a viable option. It's not clear to me if Lightroom is performant enough to make use of T3's extra bandwidth.
To be clear, my images are stored on an 18TB NAS. The Mac Mini storage would only be used to store the catalog file (115k images), the previews file, the sync files and any images that are being worked on (my workflow is to import to local drive, work on them and then move them to the NAS once I have finished processing them).