defektive
Veteran
- Location
- Tasmania, Australia
- Name
- Sam
I have had an idea .
My photos are taking up way too much space so I want to get an external hard drive to release some pressure on the system. I have had a poke around the photoshop preferences and it looks as though I can save my RAW images directly to an external drive, work on them and then save them back to that drive without having to save them to my computer at all. Does anyone do this? Is it feasible or is it a very slow process? I am on an iMac so I can't use USB 3.0 but can use firewire 800. What specs would I need to look for when purchasing to keep the speed up? Am I being stupid and should I just do what most people do and get a simple external hard drive for storing/backing up images once I have finished with them?
Cheers,
My photos are taking up way too much space so I want to get an external hard drive to release some pressure on the system. I have had a poke around the photoshop preferences and it looks as though I can save my RAW images directly to an external drive, work on them and then save them back to that drive without having to save them to my computer at all. Does anyone do this? Is it feasible or is it a very slow process? I am on an iMac so I can't use USB 3.0 but can use firewire 800. What specs would I need to look for when purchasing to keep the speed up? Am I being stupid and should I just do what most people do and get a simple external hard drive for storing/backing up images once I have finished with them?
Cheers,