[Christopher Robertson]

Kind of lost me with some of the tech talk but I do gather it isn’t currently possible to playback video reliably on two computers simultaneously.

My wife and I do photography and work from the same home office. We often need to access the same external drive to retrieve photos or load adobe lightroom catalogs. I’ve considered a NAS system but that will not work for us for two reasons. 1. Lightroom catalogs will only open when stored locally or on DAS. 2. I use Backblaze as an offsite backup solution and they don’t support NAS drives only DAS.

Our current setup is several external drives connected to my computer that she can connect to through the network and pull files off the drives if she needs them. If she needs to open a lightroom catalog she has to wait for me to not be using my computer or drag the whole lightroom catalog to her computer so she can open it. This is obviously not efficient.

Solution? Could both of us connect to a Promise Pegasus drive through the 2 thunderbolt ports and access files at the same time and possibly even run different lightroom catalogs simultaneously? We can’t obviously open the same lightroom catalog at the same time but we create different catalogs for every client so that would rarely be an issue. Reliability in transfer speeds isn’t completely moot, but what’s of more concern though is could we even both be connect to the drive at the same time? Any thoughts or solutions would be greatly appreciated!