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I'm considering a new HDD for my Lightroom catalogue and the photos therein.
Currently my OS and programs are on a 250Gb SATA2 16Mb Cache drive and all the photographs are on a 1Tb WD Green drive.
The issue is Lightroom is a bit sluggish when rendering images and I'm sure I can hear the 1Tb drive spinning up and down as the photos load.
So I was thinking of buying a 640Gb WD Black drive for the Lightroom catalogue and photos and then use the 1Tb drive as an additional backup. I also suspect my CPU might not be up to the task, its an E6420 C2D @ 2.2Ghz, the rest of the rig is 6Gb DDR2 RAM, X1800 graphics, Win 7 HP.
What do other photographers use?
Currently my OS and programs are on a 250Gb SATA2 16Mb Cache drive and all the photographs are on a 1Tb WD Green drive.
The issue is Lightroom is a bit sluggish when rendering images and I'm sure I can hear the 1Tb drive spinning up and down as the photos load.
So I was thinking of buying a 640Gb WD Black drive for the Lightroom catalogue and photos and then use the 1Tb drive as an additional backup. I also suspect my CPU might not be up to the task, its an E6420 C2D @ 2.2Ghz, the rest of the rig is 6Gb DDR2 RAM, X1800 graphics, Win 7 HP.
What do other photographers use?
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