Why Your “Fast” Computer Crawls When You’re Editing Photos
(It’s Probably Your Hard Drives)
O
ne of the most common complaints I hear about RAW editors like Lightroom, Photolab and Capture One is that they are slow.
Users complain that they have a nice up to date computer, heaps of RAM, a shit-hot GPU, a state of the art motherboard and a top of the line CPU, but that their photo editor of choice runs like dog-shit.
And while all the big photo editors do suffer from feature bloat and stuttering – the real reason they’re chugging along is probably because you’re storing your photos on a hard drive so slow that it makes a arthritic sloth on Valium look like a 14 year old on an illegally modified gravity-defying ebike.
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