I have a new screamer of a machine.  32 ram, SSD drives, gamer video card.  The slow point for me is having my photos on a USB drive that goes to sleep all the time.

Quote from: DF_Studios on April 05, 2014, 14:39
I have a new screamer of a machine.  32 ram, SSD drives, gamer video card.  The slow point for me is having my photos on a USB drive that goes to sleep all the time.

You need to put them on a faster drive - I only work on files on hard drives connected by firewire and thunderbolt and use my USB and other drives as static backup. I think you've solved your problem. If you are on or are switching to a MAC, thunderbolt blows firewire away for speed. I don't even feel like I'm using an external drive. And I have 8 GB RAM.

Quote from: DF_Studios on April 05, 2014, 14:39
I have a new screamer of a machine.  32 ram, SSD drives, gamer video card.  The slow point for me is having my photos on a USB drive that goes to sleep all the time.

Can I ask what VC did you go with?

video card came with the HP Envy.

I don't find LR to be slow.  I have version 4.4.  Only a small delay if I let the USB hard drive go to sleep.  My teenager pushed us to upgrade because he does is always messing around the Blender doing 3D graphics.

Quote from: DF_Studios on April 08, 2014, 03:41
video card came with the HP Envy.

I don't find LR to be slow.  I have version 4.4.  Only a small delay if I let the USB hard drive go to sleep.  My teenager pushed us to upgrade because he does is always messing around the Blender doing 3D graphics.

Sorry - thought you were the OP 

If you've upgraded from Lightroom 4 to Lightroom 5 or even Lightroom CC, you might have noticed things suddenly getting slow at times. Happens to me all the time and under different circumstances. It's inconsistent. I've hit the forums and Google and have decided to compile a list of every solution I've found related to this issue as well as solutions that have been emailed to me by readers.

i'm looking for a new 4TB HDD,
can anyone help me to find the best one?

i found this article on google
http://www.deskdecode.com/top-best-4tb-hard-disk-drive-monthly-updated/
and they suggest me to buy Seagate Barracuda.
how about that?

I have i7 870, 8GB ram, Catalog on SSD and photos on old Samsung f3 and Seagate Barracuda and it's working just fine with 16mpx raws. I had a problem when I upgraded from 6mpx camera, then I doubled the amount of ram and everything was fine again.

Working with an older iMac (mid2011) and having LR4.4 installed, and LR CC.
I don't use LR CC,because its to slow. Just use LR4.4 and Photoshop CC.

Quote from: kinjo on January 17, 2017, 09:11
i found this article on google
http://www.deskdecode.com/top-best-4tb-hard-disk-drive-monthly-updated/
and they suggest me to buy Seagate Barracuda.
how about that?

From my experience over many, many years Seagate Barracuda are the most unreliable drives on the planet. I have had far more success with a good quality Western Digital.

Solid state drives are very fast if that's the bottleneck.

Seagate, WD and Toshiba drives are all about the same. They are all good and reliable. Sometimes things fail. I've had a Sandisk card fail and they are tested and most reliable.

Check out the new solid state drives claimed to be 5-6 times faster than conventional drives. No parts that move.