Hi Laurence! Answers below.
1. It’s possible, but it in our experience it hasn’t made a noticeable difference. There is also a question of organized convenience vs speed and finding the right balance.
2. Because moving across multiple applications to sort and edit is time consuming and not as efficient. Additionally, they don’t have the full capabilities that Lightroom has.
3. I think you’re talking about the camera pictured in this blog post? It’s a Leica Q2, not sony camera.
4. I would say you don’t need a lot of internal storage, if you take lots of photos then you’ll need external drives and it’s better for organizing backups. RAID 0 is for speed, it has no parity (backup) built in, so if one drive fails you lose everything. RAID 1 & RAID 5 offer single drive failure, this is what we use.
5. Which parameters? Using the Samsung SSD as a working drive is great for video because the read/write speeds are really good. But that’s also useful for Lightroom. I don’t think it changes parameters much.

Good question! Since the folder layout is still the same it doesn’t matter too much; if they become ‘un-synced’ i can always have Lightroom locate one photo file and it will figure out the rest are there. Keep in mind I only really move a folder to Hard Drive A if I’m done with it or if I’ve completely run out of space (like when we were traveling for 8 months straight!), so typically I don’t open those Lightroom projects again, since I’ve usually exported the photos already. Make sense?

Hey Emily! Yes all our raw photos are backed up in 2 places – while traveling we have them on a memory card and I import them every night into Lightroom, while creating that corresponding folder where they live on my Samsung SSD drive (i.e. Norway 2019 on Hard Drive A). When we get home we back up to our Synology drives after I’ve finished going through all the photos from the trip.

Regarding exporting – when I export the edited photos from Lightroom, I save them in that folder hierarchy (the 5 folders above I mentioned with blog export, Instagram export, etc), and those I export straight into Dropbox (not on a drive). This way I can access them anywhere, they’re always on my computer, and they don’t take up much space since they are sized down accordingly into JPEGS, not RAW files.

Let me know if you have more questions!

Yes, we’ve been there (and with a Lacie)!

Glad it was useful, thanks Michael! xx

Michael