I currently have a workflow that does well enough for me. At least assuming I actually get around to the sorting and processing stage of the photos.
Right now I have a set of basic disk drives as my main storage for my workstation box, but I am thinking of updating with a solid state work drive, rather than just an OS and limited app drive. (They cost an arm and a leg when I got the one SSD, so it was limited on space. Now that they only cost an arm or a leg, I think it will be time to update again.)
Data gets pulled from the card to the primary photo drive through light room, then those files and the light room catalogue get backed up to a second drive, and stuff eventually makes its way to an off site backup with a friend's server.
This works fine, but it is all on slow platter drives.
What I want in the near future is a work flow of:
Camera > SSD + LR catalogue for primary processing > Primary Photo Hard Drive + Backup Drives
Difference being I want to add in a temporary stage where the files first get to the solid state while I do the main work on them, and they then get moved over to the hard drives later for long term storage to keep the SSD clean for future data. How exactly is this best handled with Light Room so the catalogue doesn't break on me when I move the files to Primary Photo Hard Drive instead of the Solid State?
