Agree that internet speed affects only your downloads for program upgrades in the subscription model. The fact that you are using a 36mp D810 and especially if you shoot Raw will give you files in the 30-50mb range as previously noted. I just upgraded from a 21" iMac
with 8gb of ram to a new 27" iMac with 40gb of ram. Since I use a 45mp camera my old setup was amazingly slow-doing a three Raw image HDR took about 45 minutes. I have not yet done an HDR on my new mac but loading images is now blazingly fast. Consensus for working at reasonable speeds is a machine with at least 32gb of ram to properly drive LR/PS. Pat
TriX wrote:
Sounds like a couple of different questions here and some confusion. First, as has been said, you only need to access the internet once a month or so to validate the license if you’re storing your photos locally.
If you chose to store your photos in “the cloud”, then you need the same amount of space there as you do if storing locally. A single raw file can be anywhere from 25-50 MB depending on the particular body, and a JPEG at high quality may average 10 MB per shot or more depending on several factors. If you have decent internet speed, then the
cloud can be an excellent place for your 3rd DR (disaster recovery) copy of your data.
If you store your photos in the cloud, your internet upload speed will determine how long it takes to upload a photo or download one. Your internet speed can be checked using a free ap such as Ookla speed test which you can download and run. The download speed (which is what is advertised) will be substantially faster than the upload speed. Note that the speed will be in mega BITs (Mb) per second while your photo files are in mega BYTES (MB). 1 mega byte (MB) = 8 mega bits (Mb). As a rule of thumb, you can conservatively estimate that your actual upload and download speeds for photos will be 50% of your tested speeds. It may be higher, but that’s probably worst case. You can then calculate how long it will take to upload or download your photos if you use the cloud for storage.
Example: suppose your internet tests at 100 Mb/sec download and 20 Mb/sec upload. Assume you want to upload 100 25 MB raw files (2.5 GB total). If your actual internet upload speed is 10 Mb/sec (50% of 20 Mb upload speed), then it will take you 20 seconds per photo to upload (and 4 seconds per photo to download) or 2,000 seconds (or ~33 minutes) to upload the 2.5 GB and a little over 6 minutes to download the same amount. Your actual performance may be better than 50% of the rated speed, but that is a (very) conservative estimate.
Hope that helps...
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