Comments on: Firewire Drives: Lightroom & Space Savings

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:36:08 +0000

The 3rd drive is a back up to the OS and apps, should there be a crash on C drive, i can just reboot off other drive and keep working. hard drives do fail mechanically, not always due to viruses. and if there is ever a corruption , i dont need to waist time when time is making a deadline.
I guess some just need to learn the hard way to keep the smart donkey comments quiet…lol

By: Mike Paterson

Mike Paterson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:54:52 +0000

R.C.

Thanks so much for answering my questions. It was a pretty cool thing to be checking the blog and there’s my name and my questions, on my birthday no less! Great timing. Anyway, thanks so much for sharing. I think I’ll be rethinking some of how I do stuff.

By: Trenton M.

Trenton M. — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:44:18 +0000

So is the third drive just a Time Capsule?

By: Janine Smith

Janine Smith — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:21:38 +0000

But what about backup? I have a 750G hard drive on my desktop, so I’m not so concerned about space (yet!). And I have 4 external drives. One is a backup for the desktop. Two others connected to the desktop, all my data on both of them. When I import photos in LR, I import to one drive and backup to the other. Another drive is at a friend’s house, periodically swapped out with one of the connected ones (so I have off-site data backup).

By: Adobefreak

Adobefreak — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:02:39 +0000

I love the 3rd drive trick with the stand alone OS and Apps, Great trick. I know you didnt think of it, Who did, Come on you can tell us.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:35:41 +0000

hey RC
i do something similar.
i have a sata drive in my tower that is only os and programs, i have a back up drive with os and same programs. this way if i ever had a crash in the middle of nite i can still meet any deadlines on jobs. i then have 2 additional external drives one for all photos and LR cat, and other is for all my media like itunes and video (500GB) ive been doing this for some years now and it has saved me alot of pain losing files after a crash or drive failure since i never save files on the os drives.