Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Brian. I'll look into the Seagate drives. The little Samsung 256GB external SSD drive hooks up to the eSata port on my laptop and uses two USB cables for power. I had planned to put the LR catalog on it and use it for a scratch disk, but I can't get the computer to recognize that it is there. Tina On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>wrote: > In the world of speedup, nothing is faster than its slowest part. > SSD drives are very fast, but USB is very slow, and if you connect an SSD > drive with a USB cable you will have a hard time seeing a difference. > > I like the article to which Geoff referred you. > > I have a computer with 2 SSD internal drives and 2 mechanical internal > drives and I have had a very hard time getting applications to use the SSD > drives to their advantage. Photoshop CS6, which is my primary tool, gets it > right, but Lightroom isn't as willing to use some drive other than the one > it wants to. > > I suspect that the Seagate hybrid drives would be best for speeding up a > laptop. > > http://www.seagate.com/**internal-hard-drives/laptop-** > hard-drives/laptop-solid-**state-hybrid-drive/<http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/> > > They might even be better for my computer but I haven't had time to plan a > migration to them. They are a nifty combination of SSD and mechanical > drives that do all of the speedup magic inside them. > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com