Fastest lightroom process with SSD and HDD combo?

My active RAWs sit on the SSD, then they're moved off to a server when I'm done. What's your CPU/GPU?

There's also a setting under Performance to click on/off "Use Graphics Processor" to see if there is an improvement.

How do you then move them to the server?

The raw file too? Wouldn't you then lose the link to lightroom in case you want to make future edits?

DPR2017 wrote: ↑ How do you then move them to the server?

The raw file too? Wouldn't you then lose the link to lightroom in case you want to make future edits?

Yes both the edited jpg's and RAWs get moved to my home server over wireless AC, a QNAP with 4 x 3TB HDD's in RAID redundancy (which is used for more than photos).
My important media and documents are additionally backed up on a 2TB portable HDD, one at home, and one at my work avoiding the need to pay for 3rd party cloud services, although the last 2 need to be updated manually.
And if there's a fire at both places, I'm screwed lol.

My QNAP can be accessed remotely outside my home, but I rarely re-edit. So yes, when I do, I just transfer the file(s) back to my computer and Lightroom recognizes it's there again.
I can still see my edited pic in Lr, it just says "This file could not be found" if the RAW isn't sitting on the computer.

LR is heavily dependent on CPU performance. The GPU is used for only a couple features that aren't typically used for basic post processing.

You can put your catalog on a faster drive, but for post processing the only performance improvement is going to come from a faster processor.

To be more specific, click "Use Graphics Processor" OFF to see if it runs faster:

https://petapixel.com/2015/05/08/why-yo ... eleration/

LR likes a good CPU and lots of RAM. Good graphics card doesn't help performance much if any.

OP, how do you connect your external drive to your computer. If USB, that's your bottleneck - especially if it's USB 2.

It's CPU,yet SSD does help at least in the test I did when I was reinstalling it. I switched from a hard drive to SSD and overall performance increased. Everything was more snappy. I'd estimate about 10% difference between hdd and SSD. If you have old catalogs, sometimes they can slow down your system so it's nice every year or so to just delete all the old catalogs(manually) and it will speed things up as well. When importing, do a full render. It will take a long time,but then going from image to image will be very fast during editing.