Will a 1 TB Drive be Significantly Faster than a 2 ?

[Syd]

oh and i know a couple of photographers who swear by this book > http://www.lightroomqueen.com/

Thanks Bob ordered and looking forward to reading

[Syd]

^^ This.

The most important part will be where Lightroom is installed and where your page file is

LR is currently on a 600GB 3/4 full partition on a quickish 1TB HD

Page file? Not sure where that is, default setting I guess

If you do go for a RAM drive, it's LR's cache that you would want to move.

To do that, you would need a "write through" RAM drive, as any changes made to the cache/DB will need to be replicated to disk to stop you loosing it when you reboot.

For a library of about 26,000 photos, the cache is about 8.3GB, you will probably need a lot more than 12GB in your system to cope with that size of RAM drive and have everything running well.

I'd like the easiest and (ha ha rofl, that's coming from a watercooling nutter) least complex method and 12gb is enough for everything else!!

Well you said you couldn't justify more than one SSD as a boot drive, so can you justify 24GB RAM?

If you are going that far, you would probably be better with one of those PCIe SSDs.

A PCie SSD. like this one:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120gb...-write-490mb-s

is £250.00 - What is the advantage (For my purposes) of this over say:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/80gb-...rce-controller

Would those read and write speeds make that much difference? TBH I know NOTHING about PCie SSD drives, are there any disadvantages to them over the normal type?

I suppose one final option may be to Buy an aforementioned PCie SSD as a boot and use my 80GB Intel 2 gen SSD as LR's drive?
Are there any down sides to that ?

Too many questions..............................

I think I may have just confused myself even more

[Funkstar]

From what Bobster has said, the hard drive performance doesn't make much difference to the preview speed, so actually and kind of SSD won't make much difference.

The PCIe SSDs I was thinking about were something like this: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/100gb...mb-s-100k-iops

Have a look at the read, write and IO opps, much higher than a regular SSD.

[Syd]

From what Bobster has said, the hard drive performance doesn't make much difference to the preview speed, so actually and kind of SSD won't make much difference.

The PCIe SSDs I was thinking about were something like this: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/100gb...mb-s-100k-iops

Have a look at the read, write and IO opps, much higher than a regular SSD.

OK thats more than I can justify spending - but would moving the page file or cache somewhere else make any difference?
Otherwise it seems like alot of money for a little speed !

Thanks for all your feedback Funkstar

[Funkstar]

According to the info Bobster posted, disk speed has little effect.

Go through the links he posted and see if anything there helps first.