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Hard Drive full. Advice wanted

RiggswolfeRiggswolfe Posts: 911
edited December 5 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Alright, so my 4tb Daz SSD is now full. 

So, I was hoping to get some advice. Firstly, I figure I should probably get a larger SSD. Should I go external or internal? Does anyone have any recommendations that balances budget versus it being a good/reliable drive? I'm thinking I should go internal for speed reasons even if external might be more convinient.

Also, there is a lot of content I don't use. Gen 4 stuff. OG Genesis. Gensis 2. I use primarily Gensis 3, 8 and 9. Also, to be honest, some older proprs and sets just aren't up to current standards when it comes to texture work and such.  Is there a good way to uninstall that old stuff using DIMM? And keep it from coming back? Since I'll be doing a fresh install anyway, this is a good time to think about this actually.

Currently in my filters I have the following checked:

Daz Studio 2025
Daz Studio 4.5+
Install Manager
Photoshop
General

But it is still downloading old Version 4 stuff, even stuff with .PS extensions. 
 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,911

    Why not use a mechanical drive?

  • RiggswolfeRiggswolfe Posts: 911

    As in a hard drive? In my experience they're slower so it'd take longer for scenes to load and it feels like they're more prone to failure to be honest.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,911
    edited December 5

    Yes, they are slower - but DS has to do a fair bit of processing, depending on the sceen contents (especially figures with their morphs) so that is not necessarily as much of a bottleneck as the relative speeds imply. 

    There is nothing to stop you having content spread across multiple drives - so have frequently used content on an SSD and less frequently used on an HD. While I stand by the first paragraph, it is possible that the SSD's random access (it can grab any cell at once, instead of having to wait for the ehad to reach the right part of the disc) might make it a better choice for characters and their morphs (all those little .dsf files) while textures and big models might be prefectly fine on the HD.

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  • RiggswolfeRiggswolfe Posts: 911
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Yes, they are slower - but DS has to do a fair bit of processing, depending on the sceen contents (especially figures with their morphs) so that is not necessarily as much of a bottleneck as the relative speeds imply. 

    There is nothing to stop you having content spread across multiple drives - so have frequently used content on an SSD and less frequently used on an HD. While I stand by the first paragraph, it is possible that the SSD's random access (it can grab any cell at once, instead of having to wait for the ehad to reach the right part of the disc) might make it a better choice for characters and their morphs (all those little .dsf files) while textures and big models might be prefectly fine on the HD.

    Interesting idea. But that'd require a lit of manual work right? What about my other question about filtering out older content I don't use?
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,911

    You could just set  up the desired paths in DIM and switch beteen them when installing content, so the worst aspect would be seelcting which products went to whch folder.

    As for filtering, if you instaled the Default Filters package then when you click the funnel icon next to the filter box at top-right you will get a list of options, you can certainly filter by figure generation (Filtre by Name>Daz 3D>Figures>Generation), date, and SKU. Then you can seelct all and use the right-click menu to uninstall and hide the packages you don't want.

  • RiggswolfeRiggswolfe Posts: 911
    edited December 6

    Richard Haseltine said:

    You could just set  up the desired paths in DIM and switch beteen them when installing content, so the worst aspect would be seelcting which products went to whch folder.

    As for filtering, if you instaled the Default Filters package then when you click the funnel icon next to the filter box at top-right you will get a list of options, you can certainly filter by figure generation

    (Filtre by Name>Daz 3D>Figures>Generation), date, and SKU. Then you can seelct all and use the right-click menu to uninstall and hide the packages you don't want.

    So far that is working for getting rid of the base figures. I'm guessing to get rid of old clothes/.hairs/sets I'll probably have to go by SKU or date. I have no idea what the dates on the old figures are so I'll probably start at the early SKUs and go from there.

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,740

    Speaking as someone who has a very large library as well, if you go with an external hard drive, buy 2.  One for back up.  I just lost more than 5 years of artwork that I had done that was on a hard drive that failed well before it should have.  Fortunatley I was already in the process of backing that drive up but to say that I am heartbroken would be an understatement.   The laptop I use for rendering is starting to have issues so I broke down and paid my computer guy to build me a rendering machine.  Its got a massive amount of TB on a second internal drive, that I will be using for all of my daz and art stuff.  Should be ready next week.  I have had my content library on an external hard drive for years though, and it will work as long as you are religious about backing it up. And its probably cheaper than the route I took even if you buy two.

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