[Leica] Best NAS for Photography to Buy in 2022 – NAS Nerdiness.......

[Frank Filippone]

I do not see a response. so I will give my interpretation....  I know 
nothing about Drobo nor how you have hooked up your boxes, so I will not 
comment on that....

Yes, LR and a NAS are compatible.... The trick is to contact the NAS 
folk and have them help you.....  Synology is easy to work with and will 
give you pretty un-nerdy instructions.

But here is the jist of the answer....

The catalog MUST be located on the internal HDD on the user computer.  
BUT, this can be synced also on the NAS... and you actively keep a 
duplicate catalog on the NAS...

This means that in practice, the MASTER CATALOG is on the NAS, with the 
USER CATALOG is in local storage.  Same file, different location and 
always synced.

Syncing is constant. so the NAS copy is always up to date.  The LR 
Program then sees only the local copy.... which makes LR happy.

The images can always be stored on the NAS.

Multiple computers can use the same synching technique so they too are 
always up to date.....

This is a 1 user model.. only 1 computer is active at a time....


It works also if you were to use USB HDD.  Same technique.... One copy 
of the catalog resides in the local computer, with a fully synced copy 
on the NAS....   Constant or near constant catalog syncing is more 
difficult but can be done.

Let me point out that this is not the fastest retrieval system.... Only 
local SSD storage can provide the very fastest retrieval service...if 
that is why you want a NAS, don't bother.... buy giant SSDs and use the 
NAS for  redundancy only.

Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at gmail.com

On 10/22/2022 6:06 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
> So NAS will NOT work with LR catalogs and storage?
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> So, a Synology replacement box won’t work for my old LR catalogs currently on a direct attached Drobo?
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> I’ve moved on from LR, but have some legacy catalogs that I plan to maintain as LR rather than migrate.
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> Ric
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>> On Oct 22, 2022, at 6:49 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> you can NOT put your catalog on a non-"internal" storage location....
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