I have a few minutes (hours) whilst I transfer some files between hard drives.
After the problems trying to get a USB3 external drive working - Plan B. Though to be fair the problem was the controller card not being recognised, actually several cards, after which I concluded that the PC’s motherboard was perhaps a little too ancient for USB3. The drive works fine, but only at USB2 speeds.
Plan B. Necessitated by the way in which Photo Mechanic reads data from the files. Photo Mechanic isn’t true DAM software, so doesn’t access a database. Instead it reads the embedded, or sidecar, data for each file. Works fine as long as the files are sitting on a drive with high access speeds. Enter the SATAII internal 2Tb drive. Fortunately my motherboard supports it. Fitted this afternoon and now I’m busy transferring files.
