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New to Mac, Mac Mini on order. Looking for a solution for 12 terrabyte external drive for Adobe Lightroom use that is not thousands of $$. Any recommendations from other Lightroom users? One option seems to be the Lacie Big Dock (thunderbolt 3). Or perhaps a smaller Thunderbolt 4 SSD which has the speed to work with Lightroom, and store unused files on a slower drive.
Thanks, looking for faster drives than USB 3.0 Those are good for archiving and data that doesn't need fast transfer rates. For lightroom to work well need Thunderbolt 3 or faster speeds. Looking for recs from people using lightroom.
If the link doesn’t work, search for 12tb hard drive on Amazon and use the filters highlighted below:
To my knowledge Thunderbolt 4 drives are fiction. For TB3 large drives, your choices appear limited between Lacie & Sandisk. Check this out https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CF81HG8G/ref=sw_img_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1
Good luck!
I've always had good experiences with the drives from Other World Computing (aka OWC or MacSales). This drive setup might be worth considering:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/thunderbay-4/thunderbolt-3-raid-5
An SSD setup would be faster but for 8TB would push you well above $1K.
Regards.
There are large SSDs but at least a few years ago they used QLC which is not as durable and error-resistant as TLC, MLC or SLC with SLC being best and priciest. QLC uses a small SLC as a cache and after it is filled the speed might drop even to HDD levels in sustained transfers.
My 1-2 TB Samsung 850/860 EVO SATA TLC SSDs have been good also as boot drives. I use them as bare system/data drives with OWC dual dock or StarTech USB-C/A adapters with about 530 MB/s sustained R/W speed which is good enough for me. I have eyed faster interfaces than SATA but the enclosures and adapters might not yet be so robust as the old SATA.
Whatever you get, make good backups because losing 12 TB precious data is a lot.
https://www.howtogeek.com/444787/multi-layer-ssds-what-are-slc-mlc-tlc-qlc-and-mlc/
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13633/the-samsung-860-qvo-ssd-review
Thunderbolt 4 large (12 TB) external drives for Lightroom & Photoshop
