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

[Richard Man]

I still use a Drobo, but might have to migrate off if they will not be
supported. Ugh

On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:43 PM Frank Filippone via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

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