Sad to say but it’s headed back to Illinois on a ups truck. I took what was the seamless operation and turned it into a arduous task to get on my desktop and edit photos. It’s just so seamless having everything internal to your machine. I’ve had it this way for years. I do multiple time machine back a week, plus drag and drop photos occasionally to an external drive as a copy then do a carbon copy cloner on those as well. This has worked for years with no issues and it’s just not worth the hassle and spending $1000 on a drive that makes the process slower and more complicated on top of that. This is twice that I’ve tried to transition over to an external hard drive and both times has been sort of disastrous. Really, with us just dropping $5000 on a new iMac with 8 times the storage of the MacBook Pro we had it only makes sense in our situation to keep everything internal for quite some time then at that point I will just offload images. It’s so nice to hit the mouse pull up Lightroom classic and be working on a photo in less than 30 seconds literally. Perhaps at some point years down the road I’ll change my mind on the process but for now, there’s just no comparison to having your work internal to your machine.
