Certainly much easier than lugging around the big computer. I could buy another iMac for the other home and put the LR Folder which contains the information above on a Solid State drive like you mention and hook up. My LR Folder, (Catalog, Previews, Back Up etc) which is on the desk top does go to the cloud as well. Do a quick “Bank Reconciliation Statement”of what’s missing and copy over.
#Best external ssd for imac thunderbolt plus
A Couple of copy drives remain in each location and the Primary Current drive plus a Copy are in the car driving with me with computer back and forth. Add new images upon Import, just hook up a Copy Drive, and drag over DATE folder of images that aren’t on the Copy Drives.Īll of the drives are are named as the primary drive so I can connect either drive from 2016-2019 and they flow through. Packing and unpacking drives, having the soft Tacky grip design certainly helps in the oops department. The reason for the Rugged Drives is we have a second home which I bring my 27 iMac in a nicely designed Gator Bag for the iMac. and not to mention each multiplied by 4 for back up. Opening Day.Īll images are on LaCie 2TB Thunderbolt/USB-C Rugged HardDrives, with the big Orange Bumper Pad. As I Import through LR by DATE, my anal recall allows me to pull up images pretty quickly as the DATE YYYY-MM-DD allows me to add description. By that, I mean where was importing and where were the images going. When first converting to Lightroom from Aperture, the biggest hurdle for me, and others was keeping LR “connected”. I have “One Catalog” from 2003 first “Digital point and shoot” through today.
My Lightroom Folder on the Desktop has my Catalog, Previews, Smart Previews, which is small and no longer create, Back Up and some other Adobe created folders. Like you I have a 27” iMac, but it has a 2TB Fushion drive. I've been looking at the X5, but it is twice as expensive as a USB-C drive and I wonder if I would even notice the difference between 550 MB/sec and 2800 MB/sec for still image review, culling and editing. All my images are stored on external drives. I'd think that would be your best shot.Ĭorrect: I am only asking about moving the Lightroom Catalog and Previews file to an external drive. I don't have that one, but the MacSales' Envoy that is almost as fast and it really whizzes. Not sure what your budget is but one the Thunderbolt 3 super fast SSDs like the Samsung X5 would probably be as fast or awfully close as the internal drive. I think some responses here assume want to just store images on that external, not the Lr catalog and previews.
#Best external ssd for imac thunderbolt mac
I backup the Mac and the Samsung to another 4TB drive + Backblaze cloud backup. My Mac also has just the 512GB internal SSD so all that is on it is the OS plus apps and files that are in my DropBox, GoogleDrive etc. It is connected to my iMac via USB-C and it is fine.
My LR catalog (55K images) and all my files are on my Samsung T5 - 2TB SSD but with prices coming down, you could go for the 4TB. If so, what size should I buy? Would a 500GB drive be sufficient if all I use it for is the Lightroom Catalog?Īnd do I need a Thunderbolt drive or will USB-C 3.2 or 3.2 be fast enough? Now that external SSDs are getting less expensive, does it makes sense to move my LR Catalog and previews, etc, to an external drive connected through the Thunderbolt 3/USB-C port? I have tried periodically deleting my Lightroom Catalog Previews.lrdata, but this is not an optimum solution. Unfortunately my computer's internal SSD is only 512GB, so I find that Lightroom often runs slowly. I have almost 300,000 images in one catalog and my Lightroom Catalog Previews.lrdata file is typically 150-200 GB. I am running Lightroom Classic on my 2017 5K Retina 27 inch iMac with 24 GB RAM.
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