All my digital photos have been moved into my new computer and indexed. I'm sure I made a few mistakes, but I will correct them in time. I have no complaints about LrC speed now!

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I'm not near the power user you are. Nor do I have all the computer experience that you have had. I did work for IBM as an employee for 25 and half years and after a forced retirement (Golden Parachute). I worked for them as consultant for another 12 years. While working at IBM I was privy to some inside information that IBM was going enter the small computer market. I was an early adaptor to the IBM-PC world. I have done some programming.

After I retired I was visiting my son and saw his Mac desk top computer. I was impressed by the big beautiful screen so I bought one as gift for my soon to be 2nd wife. She was an art teacher. I then made the jump from the IBM-PC to Apple and never looked back. My grand son is a "gammer" and needs the speed that he tells me is only available on PC computers.

I'm fully retired now and Photograph is a hobby. I like being able to carry my MacBook Pro(s) into the Apple store and getting competent support. Apple also provides good phone support. They are able to take control of my computer from a remote location and quickly help me. Adobe links me to India where a very fast speaking hard to understand man downloaded and installed the latest versions of LR and PS. The man in India took over complete control of my computer and did things why faster than I could have done it. I was watching him to make sure he did not access my person information.

$6000 plus is a lot of money for some people. I'm old and recently beat a deadly cancer and decided, "Why not, I can't take it with me when I die. I'm happy with my purchase, in spite of the title of this thread.

I still say importing a large number of photo images into LR and "manually" rebuilding the index is hard slow process and I'm spending more time than I thought I would waiting for the computer to build it's index when I import new images in bulk. I was warned by kind folks here on UHH that it would be difficult. I'm going to give myself a break for Christmas but I estimate that I only have about ten more hours of work to do. It's been a learning experience and I'm learning how to use some of the power built into LR. The good news is that I'm discovering some old good photos that I thought were lost forever.

I have yet to hear the fan turn on in this computer. I hope the fan works?!

Please let's not turn this into pointless PC vs Mac debate!

It's not as bad as you make it sound. It's only slow when I'm interfacing with the Internet. Everything else goes very fast.

As for RAID back up disks:
My new MacBook has 8TB SSM. My RAID has two "spinning" 8TB HDs mirroring each other. I'm covered pretty, well.

LrC is working so fast now on the newly indexed images that it's a game changer. It's no effort now to quickly find and export an image. See attached photo of a deer I took out my window using an 840mm lens.

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I live on a mountain top in the woods. I'm lucky if I get 30 MBPS. I back up using the LAN in my home to RAID upstairs in my bedroom. There are NO fiber optic cable companies available to me. I use my radio connection to a cell phone tower. On a very cold night in the wee hours, I might hit 40 MBPS.

I thought of that. I do not backup via the Internet, but I do have LAN based connection backing up to a RAID. I could turn the RAID off to make sure it's not performing incremental backups while I'm working. I could turn off the RAID, and see if that helps.

It seems to be blinding fast with indexed images, It's just that the indexing takes a while. Adobe has just recently offered LR to accommodate the M1 chip. There could be some bugs that will be worked out soon.

Yep, YOU understand. It is very fast working with indexed files. It's the indexing process that is slow. It will be worth when I'm done. I'm about half way.

Good grief, is Gene51 is the only who takes the time to read the question!?

Importing the images takes a bit longer than I expected. Not only that but I occasionally get the "spinning beach ball of death!" The good news it's now easier and quicker to force the computer off and reboot.

Wow, THREE 8TB!

Another example of an old photo that I remembered I had but could not find because of past errors.

Now that I'm creating a new index file, I'm finding these "lost" photos.

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You are correct. I'm well into the reindexing of my data files. It's very fast now! I made a lot of mistakes when I was coming up the LR learning curve. I'm using this as opportunity to correct my past errors.

This gives me something productive to do on these cold winter days.

That was the way I used to use mine. I decided to move it all inside the computer. I'm currently indexed will enought to quickly find these photos that show my old system using an external HD.

I'm still working on my indexing. I'll get there.

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I copied the "images only" from my old computer to my new one. I'm now reconstructing the LR data base to make pointer using key words in my new computer. There is a lot of duplication from past errors. It takes time.

Argggh! Please read the above post by Gene51!

It's all happening internal on my computer. Only my Time Machine backups to an external RAID spinning HDs are external. I turn off Time Machine while doing the imports to keep that from slowing me down.

We are all guilty of speed reading only the OP and then posting our thoughts.

I like this new M1 Apple computer. I dread to think how slow this process would be if I were using a slower computer!

Thank you for taking the time to fully read and understand my OP. I thought it was clear but most people misunderstood what I was doing!

I think the problem is that my collection of photos is so vast and I'm demanding so much of the computer. I seemed to have a harder time than most coming up the learning curve in LR. My work flow was complex at times. I would start working in LR but then if I liked the photo I would export the RAW image into DxO Optics Pro to perform lens defects corrections and and noise reduction. I like the results that I got from DxO but the result is that DxO generates a second raw file in the DNG format. LR can handle having both DNG and other forms of raw files of the same image. I would then often decide to edit the image in PS and end up with a TIFF version of the same image. The local printing company I use prefers to use Tiff files. I also a big fan of the Topaz AI and the absolute magic Topaz can perform at eliminate the effects of camera shake and less than perfect focus. Talk about slow! It was the slow processing time of the AI programs that prompted me to buy the fastest Lap Top computer that I could. When I decided that I wanted to share an image on line with my UHH or Facebook friends I would make a JPG version for the Internet.

Bottom line, I'm a creative slob who generates multiple images that are hard to keep track of! I'm demanding a lot from LR and my computer.

When I first posted this thread I was attempting to import a years worth of photos at a time. I have decided to drop down to a months worth of photos at a time. That is a lot easier on both me and the computer. I'm getting there but is going to take me a while.

Upgrading to a new computer is always a painful experience.