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In that case, keep all your photos on a separate drive. I use one of those fast mobile drives and back up to a mirrored hard drive that stays at home. I also keep all my old SD cards (although I understand they lose memory after a while) and negatives if film (there was a thread asking that question). Having the photos in a separate drive is a bit cumbersome but keeps the machine running fast.

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Trucks don't get fragmented.

 

You are probably still living in the 90's.

Fragmentation is not a problem on modern FS (plenty of optimizations) and large mechanical drives, let alone SSD.

Besides, for photographic usage, even if loading a fragmented image took 100 more milliseconds, you won't be able to notice.

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You are probably still living in the 90's.

Fragmentation is not a problem on modern FS (plenty of optimizations) and large mechanical drives, let alone SSD.

Besides, for photographic usage, even if loading a fragmented image took 100 more milliseconds, you won't be able to notice.

Still not learned to stop the silly snide remarks? 

 

My comment referred to the "hard drives" you mentioned. Loading a single image is not even an issue with my slowish hard drive, particularly not with the compressed 24MP images I normally use. Cataloging a whole session of images on that drive is not as blindingly fast as you make it sound.

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Still not learned to stop the silly snide remarks? 

 

My comment referred to the "hard drives" you mentioned. Loading a single image is not even an issue with my slowish hard drive, particularly not with the compressed 24MP images I normally use. Cataloging a whole session of images on that drive is not as blindingly fast as you make it sound.

 

Sorry for the snide remarks, Phillip.

 

I don't think that cataloging on your system is slow because of fragmentation.

I don't even think that normal (non-fragment) HD seek times to access each image while cataloging (I assume you mean "importing into the catalog") could have a big impact.

If you are using Lightroom, the bottleneck could be the CPU. I understand Lr is much slower importing than other software because it simultaneously starts building previews, indexing, et cetera in the background. I am not happy with Lr import speed either, and I have a quite powerful Mac Pro with quite fast drives (not fragmented :)).

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The best speed up is clean up the HD you have.   Stay under 50%

 

LR really uses very little computer.

 

RAM is only useful if the HD has insufficient storage for computations.   

 

Faster processor #1

 

I travel with a Mac Air,  and it works well 8 GB ram, 250 solid state HD.  I run PS, Bridge and LR

 

Close unused programs.

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The computations are not done on the hard drive. In my experience having sufficient RAM is essential for LR performance. If you don't have sufficient RAM, the computer will do a lot of swapping to the hard drive.

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