A client I’ve not seen for a while just called to ask if I could back-up her “Lightroom” Files to an external drive.
If everything runs well, this should take 30>60min…
As it turns out, the laptop is running VERY SLOWLY.
With it taking over 10 mins to fully boot up, and Lightroom taking another 5-10, this is going to be a bit of a slog.
The first file to save is the “Catalog” file via Lightrooms own back-up utility, as just copying the file from the system can lead to errors later.
Then it’s time to make a copy of everything else.
At nearly 500Gb in size & a transfer speed of 5-20Mb, we are looking at 5-6hrs!
With the state of the laptop, getting this data copied was urgent, as a failure would be horrible for my client.
The fastest way to transfer data in this case would be to remove the drive and use a direct SATA connection, for grabbing the files.
Now it’s averaging 50-120Mbs, e.t.a about an hour or so. But still kind of slow (Cheap n cheerful ADATA..Hmm).
Once that has completed, rebuilding the laptop…
While I’m doing that, I’ll move the files over to my clients external drive at a steady 90Mbs (1hr 25min.)
Quick check that it’s booting okay,before screwing the case down.
“Preparing Automatic Repair”, “HP System Bios Update Failure”, Oh Dear.
Looks like I’ll be on the late train, as usual 🙂
The client has advised me that she’s looking to replace this laptop,
so I’ve sent her an example of what to look for in a good photo editing computer.
(i7/Ryzen7 cpu, 32Gb DDR4/5 ram, 1Tb NVMe-SSD)
But with a new SSD & maybe a memory upgrade too, refurbishing her old laptop may be a better option, as it’s got great graphics & decent CPU…..
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