LIGISTX
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Does anyone on here have extensive working knowledge of lightroom in conjunction with a NAS of any type? Obviously I will be using FreeNAS, but I am very curious about how I should try and set things up.
Currently, I have a horrible workflow. So lets not worry about how its set up now.
My plan is to put all of my photos (about 1 TB worth of pictures) on my freenas box. I am not sure how I would go about networking for this, maybe just set up my photo directory as a network storage drive, or iscsi target? I honestly have no idea, could use some advice here (I am also not very familiar with ISCSI...).
I was planning to have my lightroom catalog on my desktop in which case it will live on my RAID 0 SSD array which is plenty fast. And to help take the load and therefor bottleneck out of my gigabit ethernet, I would either build my entire library as a smart previews or 1:1 previews. Problem is, how much space do smart previews or 1:1 previews take? I can't seem to find concrete answers and I don't want to spend a week building previews just to find out the ~60 gigs or so I was planning on was a total misjudgment and it turns out its eating up my entire half TB worth of SSD space on my main rig.
Also, since I have never stored my images off my photo editing PC, weather that be on SSD or spinning rust, how does this workflow work? Is there any noticeable performance degradation, or does the smart/1:1 previews 100% eliminate that?
Any photography buffs in here who can let me know how they have set up their workflow and what they might advise?
Also to this point, is my planned FreeNAS box plenty viable for this type of data? I don't edit pictures all that often, maybe once a week, but if my 16 gigs of RAM for instance would be an issue, I guess there is always an easy way to add more ;)
Planned hardware:
8 x 4TB WD Red or Ironworlfs RAID Z2
i3-6100
MBD-X11SSM-F-O
M391A2K43BB1-CPB (16 GB ECC RAM)
Currently, I have a horrible workflow. So lets not worry about how its set up now.
My plan is to put all of my photos (about 1 TB worth of pictures) on my freenas box. I am not sure how I would go about networking for this, maybe just set up my photo directory as a network storage drive, or iscsi target? I honestly have no idea, could use some advice here (I am also not very familiar with ISCSI...).
I was planning to have my lightroom catalog on my desktop in which case it will live on my RAID 0 SSD array which is plenty fast. And to help take the load and therefor bottleneck out of my gigabit ethernet, I would either build my entire library as a smart previews or 1:1 previews. Problem is, how much space do smart previews or 1:1 previews take? I can't seem to find concrete answers and I don't want to spend a week building previews just to find out the ~60 gigs or so I was planning on was a total misjudgment and it turns out its eating up my entire half TB worth of SSD space on my main rig.
Also, since I have never stored my images off my photo editing PC, weather that be on SSD or spinning rust, how does this workflow work? Is there any noticeable performance degradation, or does the smart/1:1 previews 100% eliminate that?
Any photography buffs in here who can let me know how they have set up their workflow and what they might advise?
Also to this point, is my planned FreeNAS box plenty viable for this type of data? I don't edit pictures all that often, maybe once a week, but if my 16 gigs of RAM for instance would be an issue, I guess there is always an easy way to add more ;)
Planned hardware:
8 x 4TB WD Red or Ironworlfs RAID Z2
i3-6100
MBD-X11SSM-F-O
M391A2K43BB1-CPB (16 GB ECC RAM)