Why Your “Fast” Computer Crawls When You’re Editing Photos

(It’s Probably Your Hard Drives)

One of the most common complaints I hear about RAW editors like Lightroom, Photolab and Capture One is that they are slow.

Users complain that they have a nice up to date computer, heaps of RAM, a shit-hot GPU, a state of the art motherboard and a top of the line CPU, but that their photo editor of choice runs like dog-shit.

And while all the big photo editors do suffer from feature bloat and stuttering - the real reason they’re chugging along is probably because you’re storing your photos on a hard drive so slow that it makes a arthritic sloth on Valium look like a 14 year old on an illegally modified gravity-defying ebike.