New Windows PC - hard drives/catalog set-up

Steve Kelly

• 2015年07月25日 08:50

Hi folks,

I'm just setting up my new home desktop PC (running Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit) and looking for recommendations for hard drive/catalog set-up for using Capture One 8 for image-editing.

Built in hard drives are: 120Gb SSD drive (C:) and a 2Tb SATA drive (which I'll call the 'Data' drive).

On my old PC, I just kept the whole catalog on my main/C: drive. But then it only had the one hard drive, which was 500Gb, and I had plenty of room on there. (I have external drives for big data storage)

On the new set-up I just want to keep the C: drive for OS, applications & then some 'yet-TBD' portion of my image raw file collection. That last bit is the bit I'm unsure about.

I should (obviously) make the most of the SSD and at least keep my main working images on here. And then I am thinking for stuff that I have finished with I would move them across to the Data drive. And that I could move them back across if wanting to work with them again.

Sound about right?

So let's say I kept all of my images on the Data rive except my in-progress stuff... then how best I set up Capture One catalogs?
If I had one catalog per drive? ... and then could I move images/files between the 2 catalogs?
I'd rather avoid sessions if possible.

Thanks in advance.
Steve.

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 2015年07月26日 10:40

  Place the catalog itself (which includes the database and the previews) on your SSD drive and the images on your data drive. This means that your images are referenced to the catalog, not fully managed (=stored inside).
  
  During editing the original images are not touched, so not there is no performance penalty of the HDD over the SDD drive.
  
  For more info on catalog suggested reading can be found below. Link 1 and 2 are probably sufficient for your needs.
  
  1. http://imagealchemist.net/catalogs-explained/
  2. http://imagealchemist.net/catalogs-continued/
  3. http://imagealchemist.net/catalogs-in-depth-part-1/
  4. http://imagealchemist.net/catalogs-in-depth-part-2/

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  WPNL

  • 2015年07月27日 08:35

  I tried this method last weekend, it's a bit of a puzzle (when also using sessions) but after a while it's definitly worth the effort!

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 2015年07月27日 09:12

  I like to encourage users to create a test or dummy session/catalog and play around with them. No harm can be done to your precious images, and you can learn a lot in an hour!
  
  Secret: all the guys 'who seems to know' play around a lot... 😉

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  SFA

  • 2015年07月27日 11:31

  Steve,
  
  a 128Gb SSD for the main drive may be a little on the small side.
  
  Also, depending in which one it is, possible not as fast as can be achieved and by some margin.
  
  In general, unless things have changed very recently, the larger the drive capacity the faster the read and write speeds - write being often much slower than read.
  
  For relatively small files that might not matter much. For potentially much larger files it could be quite significant.
  
  Just something to bear in mind as life with your new system progresses and disks fill up.
  
  
  
  Grant

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