[Leica] Computer Question

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Thanks, Frank.  What I would like to speed up is the acting on commands.
 If my computer is doing several things at a time (it is always scanning)
the response to commands in LR and PS can be very slow.  Opening and saving
files is pretty fast.  I have everything as fast load DNGs.  What I had
hoped to do was to put the LR catalog on the SSD drive.  It would not be
storage for any files.

I have the enclosure and have hooked the SSD drive up to my laptop.  It
uses 2 USB cables for power and also plugs into the eSata port.  The blue
light comes on but, so far, the computer has not recognized the drive.  I
got a message that the driver for my new hardware was not installed.  Don't
know where to go from here.

Thanks for your help!

Tina


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at 
verizon.net>wrote:

> I reviewed the specs and manual that you got with the drive.....
>
> First,, let me ask you what about your computer is "slow"?  Opening files?
> Saving files? LR4 or PS (whatever) version is slow to act upon commands?
> Other?
>
> Another way to ask that question is to ask you what did you expect this
> product to do for you?  ( same possible answers as above)
>
> The item you bought is a SSD, Solid State drive.  Its purpose is to speed
> up
> the OS, speed up frequently used files, etc.  It replaces the mechanical
> HDD
> with a solid state one.. My understanding ( and I could be wrong) is that
> upon starting up the computer, the CPU takes files from your regular old
> boot HDD, and copies them over to the SSD.  Then, when needed, the CPU
> accesses the files not from the mechanical HDD, but rather this SSD.
> Significantly shorter delays, significantly faster speeds of those files on
> the SSD.
>
> Having said that, the SSD does NOT save any files permanently.  Shut off
> power, and it goes blank.  Nada.  Nothing. Saving or accessing files will
> be
> as slow as before.  They will be saved on the mechanical HDD.
>
> What I would say is that the SSD will accelerate the CPU operations that
> are
> cached, including applications like ( and I say MAYBE here) LR4 or PS
> whatever, and OS, but ( in your specific case) also including those parts
> of
> a  file that are cached during image processing.
>
> It will NOT speed up the storage of files.  Either write or read.
>
> Does this help you to understand what you bought?
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LI7CTY/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UT
> F8&psc=1
>
> I thought it would be an external drive that I could hook up to USB but
> it's
> not!  There are evidently ways to install it in a drive bay, which I do
> have.  What do I need to do that?  Is there any way to use it as an
> external
> hard drive or would that defeat the purpose?
>
>
>
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