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What type of hardware do I need to export 25-30 K photos in 12 hours?

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December 5, 2020
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Good evening,

Currently we have a record of exporting just under 60K photos in 12 hours with 4 pcs.
Each of these pcs has a limittation of around 18K photos with their current configuration.
So, one day one of my guys tried to export 23K photos from one machine and it was not done
exporting it when we came the next morning, so we had to wait about half of that day too for
the machine to finish the 23K photos. And with these pcs the CPU usage is at 100% all the time,
so the machine sadly cannot be used for other things.

So I am now looking for advice for a pc hardware setup that will allow us to export 25-30 K in 12 hours.
And I am willing to spend good dollars to achieve it.
I am aware that this will depend on the file sizes etc.,
so lets us just say it could be anywhere between 10-20 MB per photo.

Using (Link Removed by Moderator) I have come up with the following hard ware suggestions:

Userbenchmark PC Build Comparison
Baseline Bench: Game 203%, Desk 93%, Work 313%

CPU: AMD Ryzen TR 3960X $1,350
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 $1,500
SSD: Samsung 970 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB $300
RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $639
Total: $3,789

I read the AMD Ryzen TR 3960X processor was better than Intel or otherAMD processors if you wanted to export huge amounts of photos (Link Removed by Moderator).

Anyone else have experience and suggestions for this type of huge amont of photo exports are welcome to reply.
Thanks for your input!

John

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JP Hess

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Here's a radical idea. I don't know if it would work. Consider having a couple of high-end machines for overnight exporting, and, ahead of time on other computers, export these high-volume catalogs, splitting them. Then put one catalog on each of the two high-end computers to export the images overnight. Just a thought that came to me.

Todd Shaner

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In addition to the components you have listed using a separate NVME PCIe or USB 3.1 SSD drive for your Export Destitnation drive will help to increase speed.

john-arildf90553973Author

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Do you reccomend the export to be on another drive than where LR is located?
Say, SSD disk 1 with Windows 10 and LR and SSD disk 2 is where the export is output to?

Todd Shaner

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Yes, that will reduce the export file write time and latency, which should speedup the export. It can be a local NVME PCIe SSD drive or a fast USB 3.1 SSD portable drive. Try it with one of your current systems.

dj_paige

Legend

You want a much faster CPU to do the export faster. That specific CPU ought to do fine. Improving GPU, memory, disk speed will not affect export speed other than by trivial amounts.

I don't trust the recommendations from Puget Systems. Their job is to sell computers and make a profit. They want to sell you high end components that maybe you don't need. They make incorrect statements about speeding up Lightroom Classic on their web site. If they are telling you that you need 64GB of RAM to do this, then I consider that to be a good example of selling you stuff you don't need, as Lightroom Classic speed is not normally improved by RAM over 16GB.

john-arildf90553973Author

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Well, We do have an i7-processor now and 16 GB RAM and like I said the CPU is at 100% all the time so we cannot use the PC for other things while exporting really.

ManiacJoe

Inspiring

As you have pointed out, Puget Systems is the shop I would be looking to for recommendations.

Just out of curiosity, what is it you are doing that requires that level of throughput?

john-arildf90553973Author

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Hello Joe,

We do School Photography

Just Shoot Me

Legend

And the Schools you take photos for has 25,000 > 30,000 students and you do all of them in One Day?

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