How fast should an external SSD be?
"I am planning to transfer my older catalogues including images to an external hard drive. My question is what speed the hard drive needs to be so that Capture One runs smoothly. Each catalogue contains about 4000-5000 images. Of course, the faster the better, but how much speed is necessary? A conventional HDD does not work very well for this.
Would an SSD with a read speed of 500 MB/s be sufficient or does it have to be faster, e.g. a Samsung S7? I would be happy to hear your experiences and recommendations."
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I have a MacBook Pro M1 with Thunderbolt 4
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I used a conventional HDD, which I installed in a hard disk enclosure.
The Hard disk enclosure works at a speed of 5Gbps. Of course, the HDD does not - that is clear to me.0 -
Using a SSD is the most important point due to accesstime and other overseen stuff.
The transferspeed is not that important; measuring during C1 stuff shows an average speed of 300MB/sec . Running the external device on a USB 3.0 Bus is fast enough.
C1 could work faster with better coding.
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This would mean that, for example, Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 inch would be sufficient.
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I am using an external SSD all the time, no problems. Buy an enclosure like Acasis and a SSD like WD Black and use Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 as a connection. Write/read is around 2700MB/s. Make sure that you leave at lest 25% free space on the SSD and buy an enclosure that doesn’t run too hot. Acasis is good, there is a new version with a fan, probably even better
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