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A little over a month ago, I decided to get "serious" with my photography hobby and plunked down several hundred bucks for a Drobo (4-bay, FireWire800), a couple 1TB drives to go in it, and a copy of Aperture 3.
It took a couple tries (and a couple days) to import my large iPhoto library and get everything up and running. I can see that Aperture has the potential to be a VERY useful tool... its feature set seems like exactly the type of photo manager I need/want.
Unfortunately, Aperture has been very frustrating to use so far. It's just not very responsive... the "lag" is killin me! Sometimes it's EXTREMELY slow, sometimes it's kinda slow, but it's never fast. There's always a delay/lag any time I try to make an adjustment/edit, skip to the next photo, importing and ESPECIALLY when I am deleting photos. Just deleting one 8MB JPEG can take anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 minutes.
I'm wondering if the slow performance issue is because my library and masters are stored on the Drobo (which uses a RAID-like storage system spread across multiple drives). Or do I just not have my preferences set up right? Or is there a corrupt file slowing things down? I don't know....
Anybody out there successfully using Aperture 3 in conjunction with a DROBO? If so, tell me your secret! How do you have your library/masters set up?
I'd appreciate any suggestions and advice!
Here's my specs:
- Aperture version 3.0.2
- Drobo connected via FW800, appx 300GB used, 650GB avail
- Model Name: iMac
- Model Identifier: iMac8,1
- Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
- Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
- Number Of Processors: 1
- Total Number Of Cores: 2
- L2 Cache: 6 MB
- Memory: 4 GB
- Dual monitor setup
- Besides the Drobo, another 300GB external is attached via FW
Thanks

First let me say I'm a little on the paranoid side when it comes to loosing my work so my backup process will be overkill for most.
I put all my images and my Aperture library on a large internal drive. All my images are referenced. I also put one Aperture vault on the same drive and another vault elsewhere. I allow Time Machine to back up to a partition on the Drobo (2nd gen) via FW800. I also have a external esata swappable bay that I use for full image backup of the Photo HD using Superduper. I keep one swappable image of each critical HD in fireproof storage and rotate them periodically. I also have a DVD archive of all my images that is kept in a different location.
Having all the images online in the same box makes access fast.
Backing up to the Drobo is not real fast, but I manually start Time Machine and go do something else. The backup on the Drobo is primarily so I can go back in time and locate an image I may have deleted but not realized I needed it. The speed of the Drobo is not a problem in this situation.
The Superduper backup is very fast as it only updates the new or updated files.
When I started I had 3 and later 4 500GB drives in the Drobo. I recently swapped them for 1.5TB drives. When I pulled a 500GB and put in a 1.5TB the Drobo took about 4 days to rebuild the data. The second and third swaps took just as long. The forth only a few minutes. Between each swap I checked and the Drobo (as advertised) recovered all the data.
If you can't keep all your images on an internal HD, you might consider keeping your Aperture library and recent images on the internal drive and use Aperture to migrate them to the Drobo as they age. You could also keep one of your vaults on the Drobo. This approach would require you to use referenced images.

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