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Subject: [Leica] Computer Question
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 23:30:11 +0000
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The eSATA I use on my MacBook Pro connects to the eSATA card and a single 
USB for power, not sure why you need two. If eSATA is built in to the laptop 
it should have drivers (look at device manager and see what shows), I would 
not expect a HDD to need any further drivers, so should be as Jim says 
below....

john
________________________________________


Tina,

I have added such drives to my Win XP machine, and I have to initialize the
drive and assign a drive letter.  Maybe someone can advise whether or not
your system requires something similar, or whether it can just be plugged
in.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Computer Question


> Thanks, Brian.  I'll look into the Seagate drives.  The little Samsung
> 256GB external SSD drive hooks up to the eSata port on my laptop and uses
> two USB cables for power.  I had planned to put the LR catalog on it and
> use it for a scratch disk, but I can't get the computer to recognize that
> it is there.
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Brian Reid
> <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>wrote:
>
>> In the world of speedup, nothing is faster than its slowest part.
>> SSD drives are very fast, but USB is very slow, and if you connect an SSD
>> drive with a USB cable you will have a hard time seeing a difference.
>>
>> I like the article to which Geoff referred you.
>>
>> I have a computer with 2 SSD internal drives and 2 mechanical internal
>> drives and I have had a very hard time getting applications to use the
>> SSD
>> drives to their advantage. Photoshop CS6, which is my primary tool, gets
>> it
>> right, but Lightroom isn't as willing to use some drive other than the
>> one
>> it wants to.
>>
>> I suspect that the Seagate hybrid drives would be best for speeding up a
>> laptop.
>>
>> http://www.seagate.com/**internal-hard-drives/laptop-**
>> hard-drives/laptop-solid-**state-hybrid-drive/<http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/>
>>
>> They might even be better for my computer but I haven't had time to plan
>> a
>> migration to them. They are a nifty combination of SSD and mechanical
>> drives that do all of the speedup magic inside them.
>>
>>
>>


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