Lightroom will just run slower because of the slower read and write speeds of this type of drive compared to solid state memory. If your Lightroom Catalog is not as big as mine (I have over 130.000 images in it), you could also put the Catalog, Previews and Smart Previews on the internal drive of your laptop or.
I only backup the catalog itself, by the way, not the previews, as they are too bulky and can always be re-rendered if necessary. This adds an extra layer of security for my Catalog, as I will always have a fairly recent version in at least two extra locations. This is the scenario I follow when I'm traveling: using Lightroom, I'll import my images from the SD card to the My Passport Pro. My Catalog and Previews are on an external 512 GB Angelbird SSD drive. When Lightroom prompts me to back up the catalog when I quit it, I altnernate that backup between the internal drive of my laptop and the WD My Passport Pro. This means the setup would look something like this: I see two big scenarios in which this drive really shines: the first is as a travel drive to store your photographs (and other essential data) on while you're traveling. Scenario 1: using the drive as a temporary drive while traveling It's the latter option which makes the drive interesting for photographers who generally are paranoid (or should be) about losing their precious images. If you accidentally delete a file from one drive, it's automatically gone from the second, too. As Mike rightly points out in the comments, this only protects you from drive failure, though. If drive one fails, your data is still intact on the other and vice versa. This means that the drive behaves as a 1 or 2 TB drive on your system and whatever you save on that drive is automatically mirrored on the second drive. Which brings us to the third option (the one I use and is most recommended for photographers who, unlike Mike, aren't IT experts :-) : use the drive in Raid 1 mode.Especially for the latter, that's a lot of mobile storage! The risk however is that if one drive fails, all your data is gone because it's effectively spread across the two drives. So, unless you have an airtight backup system (which would mean you would have to backup to another WD My Passport Pro or a similar capacity drive) and, if you don't want to interrupt your workflow, also carry that backup with you, this is probably not the way you want to store your precious photographs. Raid 0: this means that the two drives act like one big 2 or 4 TB drive (depending on the model).he works in IT so he knows way more about this stuff than I do! UPDATE: check out my friend Mike's workflow in the comments section: he does use the drive in JBOD mode and makes some valid arguments for that, too. However, this is not the use I make of it nor is it the use I recommend making: there's cheaper and more efficient options for that, such as the newly announced My Passport Ultra, which exists in up to 3 TB of storage. It's a bit like using two separate external drives, the difference being that they're conveniently stored in the same housing and there's only one cable. JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks): this means that the two drives inside the My Passport Pro will also show as two separate drives on your Mac.Using the supplied and easy to use WD software, this means you can set up the drive in any of three ways: Speaking about size, here's how the two models differ: Two 1 TB drives in the case of the My Passport Pro 2 TB and two 2 TB drives In the case of the bulkier 4 TB version. Inside though is where things really start to get interesting: the WD My Passport Pro does not contain one but two classical rotating 2.5 inch 5400 RPM drives. Unless I loose the entire drive, obviously. So, for someone as disorganised as me, it's a good thing I cannot loose the cable anymore. The drive draws it power from your computer, so no need to lug a power adapter along. Some may disagree, but I find the fact that the cable is attached a nice feature: when not in use, it wraps around the side of the drive.
#MY PASSPORT PRO FOR MAC FOR MAC#
The WD My Passport Pro is an external hard drive specifically for Mac users: it uses a fast Thunderbolt connection. Is it the ultimate hard drive for photographers? Well, although there's no such thing as perfection, it does come close! What is it? After over a year of using the drive, it's time for a review. The difference being that I opted for the 2 TB version. Ever since I saw my buddy Matt Brandon from one on our Rajasthan photo workshop, I've been using a Western Digital WD My Passport Pro myself.
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