I plan on storing all of my Photos (&gt;200k) on the Drobo and accessing the photos from there to process them using Photoshop. Is it fast enough?
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Over USB 3.0, it's reasonably fast. If you're doing a lot of post-processing work at a time on very large RAW files, you might be better served with a Thunderbolt external drive or even a Thunderbolt RAID0 (fastest but not redundant) or RAID10 (fast & redundant) system, and then using the Drobo as a backup device. Batch processing would also be faster on those. Just as an additional note: while I really love Drobo's simplicity when it comes to swapping new drives to expand storage, don't rely on it as your only copy of your data. I had an original Drobo Gen 1 that I used for almost five years as an external storage and backup device before it began to reboot randomly. Luckily I was able to retrieve most of the data on my Drobo before it stopped working entirely, but what I didn't may still be locked up on those drives - or not - I still haven't found a way to get to the data due to their non-standard RAID setup. Having said that - backups, especially offsite, are ALWAYS a good idea, no matter where you store the primary copies of your files.
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I just finished transferring all of my photos to digital copies and am very happy with it. It does take a little getting to know the driver and settings since it defaults to quick scan for ID copies in business environments.
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I am not an expert on the matter ... Don't know for sure but, I will doubt you can maintain the data as the Drobo needs to rewrite the disc to assure their structure... Not sure if will allow partitions either. Perhaps contacting Drobo directly you might find the right answer
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I've never tried both at the same time, but as fast as it is sequentially won't take long. My husband shoots with a D3 Nikon and it only takes a couple of minutes at most to upload 900 pictures. I really like using it as the speed is triple the others I have used.
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Works for me [though W8 is a little strange from XP], I do a lot of foto editing almost daily. There are many tools that I haven't used [or used much] so glitches may still occur. I would say, if you have your computing power up, go with it.
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Depends on what you need. 45mb/s works well for just portraits. And even fine for speed as long as you shoot in jpeg. But I was shooting fast in RAW on full frame and 45 was not doing it for me.But if it says 45 then it is. But if you have no problems no need to upgrade
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Absolutely. You won't have any trouble running 64bit Windows or apps like Photoshop CC.
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Yes...once you have downloaded the app the transfer is very easy. I have transferred 50 images in less than 2 min.
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I would not recommend that on any device. Better to back up to multiple devices, such as a couple of sticks, or a USB stick and a drive, before deleting the photos, and first make sure you can view a few of them on the stick. Also the 64 GB version is faster.
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It will run Adobe Photoshop (I have CS6 Master Collection installed). The external resources will be limited by the single USB port and the speed. Your cache settings in PS Preferences will be limited as well with only a 256GB internal drive. You can specify the alternative cache area for your external drive in Photoshop, but once again the speed is limited by the USB interface. If you are a photographer and in the field, this will work until you can get back to your desktop. I found the screen too small to work with the precision required for Photoshop. Lightroom might be the alternative if you are just fixing photos.
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WOW, I can't believe I've done that a hundred times at least. It is a lot easier than it looks.I better mention to everyone, that you do want to download your photos first, as the FORMAT is a total deletion. That's the idea, to clear the card completely, so there's nothing left behind to slow the processing down. And it should be done in the camera the card is being used in, not the computer or a second camera.
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For what it's worth, I use Photoshop Elements 2.0 with my AR3700. 2.0 is a very old version, but still works really well for all my photo editing tasks. So far as I can tell, my edits of 8MB images don't challenge the Atom D525 CPU at all, even with several images in memory.
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It would be pretty slow compared to an internal hard drive. You could probably make it work alright if you keep the Lightroom catalog on a faster internal drive, and only used the USB drive to store image files.
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It should be sufficient to run both OS together but it also depends on how much more memory you need for other software like iPhoto, etc...
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if you have the proper connection, 3.0, its pretty quick. I mainly use it for military documents, and a few movies. But it is def a very good deal
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I use it to edit camera RAW photos. If you have a thunderbolt equipped laptop I would think that this would be plenty fast.
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I'd recommend it at least. Or, I'd go faster if you can. I'm finding that sometimes with Photoshop there's some speed issues for me, or maybe I'm just picky.