Storage suggestions for photos

Hello everyone I am new to lightroom so please for give me if this question was ask before. I am using my computer as a combo video editing and Photo editing setup. I using a raid 5 for my video editing work, and two 1TB drive setup as raid 1 mirror where my photos are located. I am down to my last 325 GB that may sould a lot but I am planning on really taking off with my picture taking. I have a NAS were I also have my photos backed up. I have not added my photos to Lightroom catalog. I also have Photoshop. I understand it is better to have the photos located on the computer instead of external. How dose Lightroom handle photos on multiple drives?Should I separate the two 1TB drives so I have two 2TB available and if so were to place lightroom Catalog folder? Or should I make it easy on myself and just purchase a 2TB drives and place all the photos at that location?

If you click on one of the folders of your internal drive, then - in the Grid View - only the images of this folder will be displayed.
The Grid View shows all images that are on all your drives (and some with question marks) when you don't have a folder selected but - in the Catalog Panel - have "All my photographs" (or something similar) selected. You have to click on one of the folders to display only the photos that are in this folder.
To display only the images of your internal drive you have to display the top parent-folder that contains all folders (as sub-folders) that have images.
If you have such a parent folder - for instance the folder <My Pictures> (or whatever it's called on a Mac), you just have to display this parent folder in the folders panel. To do this right-click any folder of your internal drive and select <Show parent-folder). Do this repeatedly until the top-level parent folder for all your images is displayed. Then in the <Library> menu make sure that <Show photos in sub-folders> has a check-mark. If it doesn't check it. This means that all photos of all the sub-folders under this parent folder will be displayed when you click on the parent folder. This will then show all the photos on your internal drive - provided you have not solitary image folders sitting somewhere not under the parent folder.
If currently you do not have such a parent folder for all your image folder, you have to create one.
You do this in Mac Finder: Create a folder, name it "Images on XYZ-drive". Then - still in Mac Finder - drag-and drop all your folders that contain images into that just created folder. So then all image folders will be sub-folders in this parent folder.
Now, in Lightroom you will see you folders with question marks because you have moved the image folders outside of Lightroom.
Right-click the top-most folder and select <Update folder location>, navigate to the new location of the folder and click on it. Lightroom will - probably - find also the other folders in this parent folder. If not, you have to do the <update folder location> for each folder.
After this - in the folders panel - you should see the parent folder and all your image folders as sub-folders. When you click on the parent folder (and <Show photos in sub-folders> is checked) you will see all images on your internal drive.

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