I'm a keen photographer too, Jack, as you may be aware, and I too use Lightroom as my primary photo processing and cataloging tool. Do you think LR is particularly sensitive to disk speed? I have my LR library on an external 4TB USB drive (in a USB2 port, in fact) and LR runs absolutely fine. I've always considered that what it really wants is lots of RAM: it dramatically sped up for "develop" operations when I went from a laptop with 4GB RAM to one with 16GB.
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