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

[CartersXRd]

that’s my position, except I’ve decided to move on

ric



> On Oct 23, 2022, at 3:06 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> // richard http://imagecraft.com
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