Lightroom "disk activity" on the wrong drive - can someone explain?


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    Lightroom "disk activity" on the wrong drive - can someone explain?


    Hi,
    I am a professional photographer & am trying to optimize Adobe Lightroom for processing RAW files as fast as possible. Presently, I am trying to decrease the pause I have each time a new photo loads into the develop module (this is my biggest editing bottleneck).

    Here's my system specs:
    OS Win-7 64-bit
    RAM 32G
    CPU i7-3930K
    Windows is installed on C:\ (SSD)
    Windows paging is managed by the system, and usually appears on C:\ (SSD)
    the Lightroom catalogue is on D:\ (SSD RAID-0)
    the Lightroom Cache is also on D:\ (SSD RAID-0)
    the RAW files that Lightroom accesses are on E:\ (SSD RAID-0)

    My confusion is over the way Resource Monitor displays the "disk activity" at the crucial points (when Lightroom loads a new RAW photo). The "storage" window lists drives C, D, & E as as most active during this time (according to the Active Time(%)), which seems right...

    However, "disk activity" lists the system and lightroom as reading files from "H:5\file_path_etc" at the highest rate. I am concerned that this means Lightroom and system are using cached files on the H:\ drive, and my H:\ drive is a slow 7200rpm HDD... Or maybe I'm not reading the "H:5\file_path_etc" tag right. (drive H:\ doesn't have these files on it anyway, unless they are there in a cached form (?)).

    I also see a similar thing for "disk activity" on "H:0\file_path_etc" for the following files:
    1) the Lightroom catalogue, which should be on D:\
    2) the Lightroom Cache, which should be on D:\
    3) the RAW files, which should be on E:\.
    These last examples of disk activity however don't occur when files are loading, so I'm not really concerned about them.

    Could someone interpret what "H:5\file_path_etc" and "H:0\file_path_etc" mean and what might be going on? I'll attach a screen shot of what Resource Monitor lists during the period when I've been loading files consecutively (bride & grooms names are blacked out).

    Thanks!
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    Last edited by medoomi; 26 Jul 2014 at 12:54.
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  2. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 64-bit
    Thread Starter
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    UPDATE:

    OK, so I think I've solved this one. H:0\ is simply Windows 7's way of referring to the D:\ drive in a RAID-0 array on my computer, and H:5\ is Windows 7's way of referring to the E:\ drive in a RAID-0 array on my computer.

    Bummer. I was hoping for a speed increase in the way Lightroom behaves. I'll need to look elsewhere, it seems :-(
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