BillN
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- S W France
- Name
- Bill
I am looking to upgrade my Nikon D300 to maybe the D600 or whatever .. anyway this will mean bigger RAW images.
I would also like to store all my images on an external hard drive that I can move from iMac to MBP and vica versa.
Images on hard drive, LR application on iMac/MBP ...... processing them on external hard drive with app on computer
My Question: - is this feasable or will the process be too slow
I bought my iMac in about 2010
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac9,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
and my MBP about the same time
my son says no it will not be fast enough and came out with the usual attack on Apple from a dedicated PC user,
his quote 'Without wishing to say I told you so, this is the problem with Macs. With a PC, you could open it up, put a USB 3.0 card in, job done.
Unfortunately, yours has USB 2.0 ports only, which will be far too slow. You probably also have firewire, but I’ve never used it and the drives tend to be more expensive.
So, USB 2.0 will be slow, probably unusably so. Your best bet is to put images that you want to edit on the hard drive, with an external device as the storage. Its not especialy practical, but you can thank Apple for making their products a complete bugger to upgrade. Of course, the Apple answer to the problem is to go and buy a new one with a nice shiny Thunderbolt port. And then buy all new drives for it. Wait 2 years, rinse and repeat" Unquote
I would also like to store all my images on an external hard drive that I can move from iMac to MBP and vica versa.
Images on hard drive, LR application on iMac/MBP ...... processing them on external hard drive with app on computer
My Question: - is this feasable or will the process be too slow
I bought my iMac in about 2010
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac9,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
and my MBP about the same time
my son says no it will not be fast enough and came out with the usual attack on Apple from a dedicated PC user,
his quote 'Without wishing to say I told you so, this is the problem with Macs. With a PC, you could open it up, put a USB 3.0 card in, job done.
Unfortunately, yours has USB 2.0 ports only, which will be far too slow. You probably also have firewire, but I’ve never used it and the drives tend to be more expensive.
So, USB 2.0 will be slow, probably unusably so. Your best bet is to put images that you want to edit on the hard drive, with an external device as the storage. Its not especialy practical, but you can thank Apple for making their products a complete bugger to upgrade. Of course, the Apple answer to the problem is to go and buy a new one with a nice shiny Thunderbolt port. And then buy all new drives for it. Wait 2 years, rinse and repeat" Unquote