WORKING WITH PHOTOS WITH BIG LIBRARY

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WORKING WITH PHOTOS WITH BIG LIBRARY

I have 100K photos in my library.

what is the best way to work on iMac ?

Shall I expand the internal drive, use external drive or iCloud ?

Posted on Oct 18, 2019 2:15 PM

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Old Toad

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Oct 18, 2019 4:23 PM in response to david.martins

Personally I would use an external HD. You can get an external SSD drive of 1-2 TB and with will run very fast with your library.

I have OWC SSD drives in a OWC USB 3 drive dock.

I find it extremely convenient and easy to swap out additional drive as I need them. I also have a SATA to USB 3 adaptor which I use to swap out different systems I want to boot into.

However, if you need to have your photos available on other devices then the iCloud Library might be best for you. That would require purchasing additional iCloud storage.

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Oct 21, 2019 5:34 AM in response to Old Toad

Thank for

Old Toad wrote:

Personally I would use an external HD. You can get an external SSD drive of 1-2 TB and with will run very fast with your library.

I have OWC SSD drives in a OWC USB 3 drive dock.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/1b405ee6-36af-4fc5-afc6-fb21e7b98eb9

I find it extremely convenient and easy to swap out additional drive as I need them. I also have a SATA to USB 3 adaptor which I use to swap out different systems I want to boot into.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/94d33a4c-5953-44ec-a2b5-0b6a01e889f5

However, if you need to have your photos available on other devices then the iCloud Library might be best for you. That would require purchasing additional iCloud storage.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/4b445d9f-fec1-4811-997e-5bb54bdd9771

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/31a5bb31-c6ca-45ff-bcae-662bf33647a

Thank you for your tip !

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