Confused by the Councils external hard drive - any point of view?

Since the same Lightroom 1 I structured my workflow around the principle of importation, in selecting and publishing naves on the internal hard drive which also holds the program. Once edited, stored images are moved to a dedicated external drive which is stored .lrdata and .lrcat files.

The link between readers has gradually strengthened USB, USB2 and Firewire 400, FW 800 aware. The internal drive is currently 2.7 Ghz Intel Core i5 with 12 GB of RAM in an iMac 27 "mid-2011. The external drive is a 2 t double disc WD MY Book with Raid 1 dedicated as above.

This system takes into account - I thought - the optimum for speed, taking into account the limitations of the available material. However, I now see advice advocating to put the program on the same drive (external), as files lrdata and lrcat - all in an effort to speed up the response time of Lr.

The reason why I ask the question now is faced with a necessary update to separate altogether an external drive, on which I keep my back-up system, goes, one option is for me to add a new Raid with 2 t dedicated to the Lr library and the program of this last argument.

All thoughts, based on one or the other local, would be welcome. Thanks for your time.

PS: the current iMac has a Thunderbolt port, but I'm not folding in any solution at the moment.

Jim01403:

With this bit of information, I was able to verify the location of the cache of my ECA, thank you very much. He seems to have made his home on my internal drive - without too much help from me, I might add. If this cache is which target alanterra too in his former position, then all appears well. I didn't need to move catalogs between computers. Once again thanks a lot for your time and your interest. Best regards, dk

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