Lightroom Images - Main Drive or Spare Drive

[Kennett]

Just taken delivery of a new PC, Win10 Pro installed and I'm now ready to re-install/download CC2015. Not sure whether I should copy the images to the new PC before downloading CC2015 and I'm also not sure if it is best to store the collection of images to be used by Lightroom on the smaller (245GB) SSD drive or the larger 1TB spare drive?

I guess they'll load quicker if they're on the 245GB SSD drive along with Lightroom and PS but as I have so many I'm worried about the space they'll take up.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jayst84]

I download each shoot onto my internal (500GB) SSD first, just makes life quicker and easier for editing and processing. Once the job's done, and as I shoot more, older images are archived off onto external spinning HDDs.

 

[Kennett]

Thanks for the help James.

 

[treeman]

Yep echo what James said, worked that way for some years now.

 

[troutfisher]

I put my images on the HDD and have LR and PS on the SSD.
From a cold start ( LR not running) LR will open and load an image in 20 secs, and when open it will load a pic in develop mode in under 2 secs

 

[Kennett]

Thanks again for the help. Really appreciated.

 

[Byker28i]

I have my system optimised for Lightroom, as I have around 130K images in it. It has a SSD for the operating system (500Gb), another for the lightroom cache and catalogue files (250Gb), and another for this years raw files 9500Gb). I then have a large disk (4 x 4Tb WD black raided) which stores the previous years raw files and exported jpegs etc.

I guess it depends on the speed of your 1Tb drive and how many images you have and how many raw files you import and how regular.

You can copy your files onto the drive, then tell lightroom to discover.

 

[shreds]

I keep most of my images off board and store a copy of my working files on the 750Gb SSD.

I can then import and export as required from my various 2 & 4Tb external HDDs but there is always another copy elsewhere should the worst happen. Also have backups in differing physical locations for safety too.

Having a large main SSD drive was a worthwhile investment four years ago and its speed is phenomenol. Great for both PS & LR. I am less concerned about import/export speeds to and from the back up drives as they only ever get used at the end of a session for longer term storage.