My new master external drive for photography just arrived today an OWC Express 1M2 USB4 4TB . A very fast new external SSD holds all my images, presets, and catalog w/backups. Light Room Classic (LRC) is much faster than it was with my older OWC Envoy Pro SX w/thunderbolt 3 which will now go into my backup drive stable.
Operating on an Apple Mac Studio M1 Max connected to Apple Studio Display (standard glass).
I keep things simple and have only one LRC catalog. All my drives have the same name except the backups have a number at the end. I can rename any of them to what LRC recognizes by taking the number off and plugging it into my Mac Studio or my MacBook Pro if away from home. I get back from traveling and carbon copy cloner to clone the drive I was traveling with now renamed with the number added back to my master drive.
The speed I get with the ProGrade CFexpress™ Type B 4.0 Memory Card (Gold) 512GB in camera is very fast ... have not hit the buffer yet in Z9 raw 20fps but I have not just held the shutter release down to try and hit the buffer and did not with my Delkin Blacks either.
I drag and drop these cards to my desk top and using a ProGrade CFexpress Type B single-slot USB4.0 card reader. Extremely fast and for now the fastest part of the upgrade to the B 4.0 card until camera bodies and or firmware catch up.
I back up the drive using Carbon Copy Cloner and make exact copies of the master disc to 4 4TB SSD external drives ... 2 OWC Envoy Pro FX Thunder bolt 3 and now 1 OWC Envoy Pro SX and 1 Samsung T7 shield 4TB SSD. I keep one of the drives in a fire proof box at home and rotate one to my safety deposit box monthly or sooner if I have important to me new images ... a life bird for instance
Operating on an Apple Mac Studio M1 Max connected to Apple Studio Display (standard glass).
I keep things simple and have only one LRC catalog. All my drives have the same name except the backups have a number at the end. I can rename any of them to what LRC recognizes by taking the number off and plugging it into my Mac Studio or my MacBook Pro if away from home. I get back from traveling and carbon copy cloner to clone the drive I was traveling with now renamed with the number added back to my master drive.
The speed I get with the ProGrade CFexpress™ Type B 4.0 Memory Card (Gold) 512GB in camera is very fast ... have not hit the buffer yet in Z9 raw 20fps but I have not just held the shutter release down to try and hit the buffer and did not with my Delkin Blacks either.
I drag and drop these cards to my desk top and using a ProGrade CFexpress Type B single-slot USB4.0 card reader. Extremely fast and for now the fastest part of the upgrade to the B 4.0 card until camera bodies and or firmware catch up.
I back up the drive using Carbon Copy Cloner and make exact copies of the master disc to 4 4TB SSD external drives ... 2 OWC Envoy Pro FX Thunder bolt 3 and now 1 OWC Envoy Pro SX and 1 Samsung T7 shield 4TB SSD. I keep one of the drives in a fire proof box at home and rotate one to my safety deposit box monthly or sooner if I have important to me new images ... a life bird for instance