Content library organization for new system
pincorrect
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After a few months of fighting off the etherium miners, I was finally able to break through the wait list on Nvidia's website and snag a 1080ti. Now I'm building a proper machine for 3-d modelling. In my old system, all my content was thrown into a single folder, C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\My Daz3D Library. This includes contents from Daz, installed through DIM, and from other sites, installed manually. But now, I'm starting with fresh, empty, drives. I'd love to hear your recommendations for the best way to organize content, including using more than one Daz library folder.
This will be my storage setup:
- Drive C: will be a 500Gb SSD, with the OS (Win 10 Pro) and applications, like Daz.
- Drive D: will be a 1000Gb SSD. I thought I would put the most used content there, in one or more Daz library folders, and my active projects.
- Drive E: will be 4Tb HDD. I can put infrequently used content there, and older projects. (And non-Daz-related stuff)
- Drive F: isn't a drive at all. It's a FreeNAS server I built last year. I can back up there. Maybe I can load Daz zip files directly there (as opposed to my local HDD) and install them from there.
Anyway, I have a clean slate here. Before I start filling it up, I'd like to make a good plan for keeping things organized. Thank you for your advice!
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Reading content fromn the hard drive (vice an SSD) isn't a real slowdown. You will almost certaily be better off if all of your content is in one library in one location.
My library is on an external USB hard drive and I don't have slow reposnse loading assets.
Thanks. I can easily put all my content in a single library on the hdd and use the ssd for my project files. I had wondered if some people tried to keep their “core” content, like characters, on their ssd.
Right now, all my downloaded content would easily fit on the ssd with plenty of room left over for projects. I imagine it will grow though (particularly after big sales!)
I use an SSD for content; purely as I only use mechanical for backups which are disconnected when not in use.
Although everything is on one drive, there is no reason it should be really; Daz, certainly as far as DIM is concerned, doesn't seem to care; I don't use Connect so can't offer an insight there.