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Scott255525676fz1
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August 7, 2022
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How To Work From New NVMe M.2 SSD?

  • August 7, 2022
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• Mac Pro 5,1 Mid 2010
• OS X 10.14.6 Mojave
• 2 x 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
• Sapphire RX 580 Pulse 8GB
• Memory 48GB • 6 x 8GB • 1333 MHz DDR3
• Boot Disk: 1TB NVMe M.2
• Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card (Silent)
• Firmware Version: 144.0.0.0.0

 

Greetings,

 

In my Mac Pro I recently installed a fast 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD for improved/faster video editing.

 

I'd also like to do my Lightroom editing on this new faster drive, while keeping the entire Lightroom folder that contains all my photos on a slower 14TB spinning storage HDD. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?

 

Also, if I were to do this...  would I truly be able to harness the speed of the new SSD, or would the communication between the SSD and the slower 14TB HDD slow everything down?

 

Thank You

 



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dj_paige
dj_paige
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August 7, 2022

Are you takling about Lightroom (Lr icon) or Lightroom Classic (LrC icon)? What version number?

 

I recently installed a fast 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD for improved/faster video editing.

 

Is your question entirely about video editing? Could you provide details about what you are trying to improve, or exactly and in detail, what was slow before you got this new drive?

 

I'd also like to do my Lightroom editing on this new faster drive

 

Editing is done by the CPU or GPU, and (assuming you are talking about Lightroom Classic) stored in the catalog, so "editing on this new faster drive" isn't even a meaningful concept. Could you explain further?

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Scott255525676fz1Author
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August 7, 2022

Thanks for your reply, dj_paige

Yes, I'm running Lightroom Classic...  10.4 release.

 

It just occurred to me that I've probably already done all I can do because my applications, including Lightroom,  live on a new 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD, so my apps are running as fast as possible. And, my Lightroom folder lives on a 14TB spinning storage HDD, and it needs to remain there because it's quite large.

 

So I think I'm good, dj_paige

Thanks for helping me think that through!

 

dj_paige
dj_paige
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August 7, 2022

It just occurred to me that I've probably already done all I can do because my applications, including Lightroom, live on a new 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD so my apps are running as fast as possible

 

Disk speed doesn't really have much of an impact on editing in Lightroom Classic. You didn't describe the problem you were having editing that you are trying to fix, but I am skeptical that disk speed is the issue. So running as fast as possible, maybe not.

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