Too many photos....Too many places....Too much of a newbie

I am currently working on a windows based computer...Have just purchased a Macbook Pro, cs5 upgrade and LR3....Still waiting for both to come UPS but have started reading a quick start guide on LR3.....I have approx 10,000 photos on my old laptop and have been working on trying to consolidate them all in one location on one hard drive... I think at the end of the day when I am done I will probably end up with some duplicates.....I have a few questions and would appreciate any comments or suggestions on the fastest way to consolidate and organize my photos....It kind of got away from me over the last couple years...and some other queries.
Out of the two software pkgs I am guessing l should concentrate on getting a working knowledge of LR3 before I even bother installing CS5....Thoughts on this anyone?
my thought is that I need to create one folder on a new hard drive and copy and paste all my individual images(not folders) into that using my Windows PC and then organize my pictures from there on LR3....this way it will recognize the duplicates and I can chose not to copy them....From there put import them into LR3....Is this a good approach or is there a better one?
I am thinking that I need to set up an external drive system for storage of older photos and then keep the recent photos on the new Mac.....Is this a good approach
If that is a good approach.... what approach to setting up the drives do you guys recommend? RAID???????? I certainly want to have two copies of my photos at all times and make the back up seamless, as I have experienced a hard drive failure and do not want to go through that ever again especially risking losing photos.
I know these are fairly simple questions to some of you out there but being as I am going to be spending a fair amount of time trying to organize my past photos and want to make sure when I start downloading them onto the new Mac that I do it properly so as to not create a bunch more work.....Any suggestions anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated

Jethro64,
Out of the two software pkgs I am guessing l should concentrate on getting a working knowledge of LR3 before I even bother installing CS5....Thoughts on this anyone?
I would install CS5 first and then LR. You don't have to bother about using CS5 before you get familiar with LR.
my thought is that I need to create one folder on a new hard drive and copy and paste all my individual images(not folders) into that using my Windows PC and then organize my pictures from there on LR3....this way it will recognize the duplicates and I can chose not to copy them....From there put import them into LR3....Is this a good approach or is there a better one?
Generally a good approach. A few thoughts:
Make sure you have one single top-level folder for your images (i.e. "Pictures"). This will make your life easier in the future
Try setting up some sort of folder structure within this top-level folder, i.e. by date. LR itself offers the following folder-names to be generated upon import, if so desired:
(the names of the months are in German, but I'm sure you'll get the meaning)
When you will import into LR, the pictures themselves will not get copied into LR. The LR catalog is just that, a catalog, as a catalog in a public library. The images themselves either remain where they are or are copied/moved to another location on HD.
I am thinking that I need to set up an external drive system for storage of older photos and then keep the recent photos on the new Mac.....Is this a good approach
That approach is OK. If you move the folders/images from within LR when you want to get them off your internal, you'll still be able to access them from your LR catalog.
If that is a good approach.... what approach to setting up the drives do you guys recommend? RAID???????? I certainly want to have two copies of my photos at all times and make the back up seamless, as I have experienced a hard drive failure and do not want to go through that ever again especially risking losing photos.
RAID (especially RAID1 / RAID10) is a good way for protecting from single drive failures. But be aware that having a RAID array still means all of your photos are in the same physical location (fire, water, earthquake, ...). Also, your RAID controller might be a single point of failure.
To protect against this it could be advisable to have at least one backup on a portable drive which you can take offsite or somewhere in the cloud.
Some general advice:
Before you start organizing your photos for good, do some playing around with LR with a set of test pictures (copies of your real ones) to get a feel of what's best for you. You can always delete the test images from your catalog or even create a new, fresh catalog when you want to start over fresh.
Do some reading/watching on LR, as getting the basics is very important. I can recommend Julieanne Kosts videos (see LR3 Getting Started Series) and the first few chapters in the LR manual.
Enjoy!
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

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