I suspected that you will have problem with using DAS when you were looking for that while back. Most people do. That is what NAS are meant to solve.
Given what you have - I suggest connecting your DAS permanently to your always on desktop or Synology NAS. Export the storage over NFS or CIFS or both. Use it over network using autofs everywhere. No more messing with USB sticks. Note: If you chose to do this - check and synchronize UIDs before our start. It doesn't matter over NFS/CIFS on NAS, but it does on your DAS. Not saying that you do not deserve new laptop every once in a while :-) Just do not expect miracles. --- Clean Ubuntu install on your laptop after 10+ distro in place upgrades would probably speed things up considerably in your current setup. On mSATA - current generation of laptops/desktops use NVMe instead. It looks the same (except the notches), but it is much faster (2-3x) and it is not backwards compatible with mSATA. Tomas On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 11:12 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > >> You have a newly assembled desktop which I assume has plenty of > >> DDR4 RAM. > > > > No, only 16GB, although easily upgraded. > > And at lower cost than a new laptop. > > > I built the new desktop because its predecessor was 11 years old and > > starting to have issues. And yes, I went to great lengths to ensure that > > it had USB 3.1 Gen 2 and a fast CPU, but only to future-proof it. I do > not > > currently own any 3.1 Gen 2 devices, but I'm sure that someday I will. > > OK, the USB ports are not a concern. > > > As for why I do not use it for my video work, sometimes I do. But my main > > storage is in a 16TB USB 3.0 enclosure, and I don't know how to connect > it > > simultaneously to two computers. When I use the desktop for video work I > > output to USB sticks and physically move them to the laptop. I have done > > so a few times and it takes about half the time that the task would have > > taken on the laptop. > > There are solutions for this. For example, do your video work on the > desktop and store results on the external 16T drive. Then, at your > convenience, connect that drive to your laptop and do your laptop stuff > this > way. While I've not used the 'tee' command this way, it might send output > from, for example, the desktop to both the external hard drive and the > laptop, yet I suspect that it would. > > I would mount the external hard drive using samba (or NFS) so it's just > another drive on the network and accessible everywhere. > > Those more expert than I can guide you to no-cost solutions using what > you > already have. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
