Having your Lightroom Catalog and Photos On and External HD??!

Its super easy to do in Lightroom. Just follow this video: How to Copy Files to an External Hard Drive in Lightroom Adobe Evangelists - Julieanne Kost Adobe TV

I keep all of my catalogs/folders that I'm not immediately working on, on my external hard drive

 

I have a secondary hard drive in my PC that I use for photos and LR catalogs and then mirrored to my external hard drive for backup. I also have a third hard 2.5" hard drive I use to backup photos a few times a year and place it in a secure location (I'm lazy). Works, for now. Of course, I don't do photography professionally...if I did..then I'd have a much, much fancier setup and use RaidZ and ZFS. Lol. I only have one SSD for OS and Apps. I really need to get a second one for editing photos and videos. But would probably need to get a 512gb SSD at least. $$$$$$$$$.