How much DAZ content do you own?
amyw12
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Just curious to hear the sizes of your collections. I think mine is around 300-400 gb but haven’t checked for a while.
Edit: this applies to both DAZ store items and other DAZ content purchased (or freebies) off-site
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You have been here a year and already that much, holy crap!
I have been buying from DAZ for 14 years and my DS runtimes are at 275 gigs and my poser runtimes come out to 130 gigs.
I have almost 4 TB's....
Edited to add that that is not all from the daz store
recent stuff? not much. Older stuff? quite a lot.
Recently my time has been spent learning other things, intending to get to the point where i can create 90% of the stuff i want to use myself.
But my runtime is ~500gb if i am remembering correctly
Mine is 3873 products in 711,263 files, 130,421 folders totaling 393GB.
The 3873 products is what DIM states I have but there is more than that. The others numbers include all products & freebies, so then the GB total includes about 6 GB of products included with Poser Pro 2014, about 100 products from the Content Paradise store, about 100 products from the old RUNTimeDNA store, and less than 100 products downloaded and installed from ShareCG.com and other freebies at other websites. The size, file, and folder counts for those seperate from the DAZ Content Library are unknown. There is also a small overlap of redundant products where I copied over an old DS 3.0 Content Library into my DS 4.0 Content Library.
You made me curious so I checked my drives and added it up... and I'm gobsmacked. I have just over 1 TB in 3D content and the VAST majority of it is older freebies. When I first started I was on such a tight budget that I was mainly using freebies and spent countless hours hunting and downloading all the freebies I could find for V4, Genesis, G2, and G3. As well as any freebie environments or props that looked decent. The Poser/Daz wiki with it's massive archive of freebies was my favorite site for a long time after I first discovered it. It's been about 3 years since I started doing 3D art and collecting 3D content. If I had known I'd be this deep into it three years later I would have planned better and not put my content library on a smallish hard drive. I have three different content libraries across three different hard drives now. Yikes. I wish I could separate all the freebies out from my paid content. I really regret mixing up all the freebies with my paid content and wish I could figure out how to separate it.
Oops, I guess I don't mean all from DAZ studio only, just DAZ content in general! I have a bad habit of stocking up on a ton of products or freebies unfortunately... When I'm bored I just search for things to download = quick buildup :O I think I was also around for more than a year but never actually interacted with the forums or sites much when I first got into DAZ, was mainly freebies.
I know how you feel, I have spent a TON of time looking for freebies and then I've now ended up mixing them up with paid items too.
One thing I wish I could tell anyone starting out with 3D content is to make sure to have a separate library set up JUST for the freebies and another JUST for the purchased content. You'd be shocked how often freebies break other content when they've been set up, saved, and distributed incorrectly -which happens quite frequently. Also, a lot of freebies have restrictions that paid content doesn't. So when I set up a scene for a promo image I have to be very careful about which products I use and be careful not to include any freebie content that might have usage restrictions.
Having the freebies in their own library would have been a massive time saver for me. Now I'm pretty much stuck with no way, that I know of, to separate them out from the paid products.
Well, I had to recently upgrade my main runtime drive from a 3TB to a 6TB because I ran out of space... and I'm really wishing that I'd gone with an 8TB drive now because I keep finding things that I forgot I had. As of this posting, I currently have 13,373 products just from DAZ alone, not counting the old Free library and some items that came as magazine and book freebies and 5154 products from Rendo, not counting BOGOs and Get-With add-ons. After that it gets hard to follow, as there are at least a few thousand more items from the various other stores (like the entire Poserworld catalog since I was a lifetime member), and I honestly have no idea how many other freebies, most of which I haven't got around to installing since I try not to use anything that I haven't vetterd the commercial rights on.
As a rough guess... probably somewhere between 4 and 5TB, but a lot of that is really obsollte stuff that I'll probably never re-install on an active runtime.
My product library is now 31 pages. I am cry! 99% of all my purchased 3d content is from here. I only have a few bits and bobs from Rendo, and a select few pieces of free content. (Although a lot of my DAZ purchases have been in the $0.00 category.)
I have, in my repository on my backup server, 247 GB of free content of all types from all sources, and 128 GB of purchased content of all types from all sources. That is all compressed archive files, so much more if uncompressed into a content library.
And yes, DIVA, both my repository and the content library on my main PC are separated according to free and purchased content (although that does get tricky when DAZ offers otherwise purchaseable content temporarily for free - "Now, do I want to put this with the free stuff, or the purchased???"). There definately are advantages to keeping things separate, including the fact that I will often add a freebie to the library for a one-off use and then remove it, but the purchased stuff tends to get added and remains.
I have about 554gig of 3D content, it is a mix of Daz, Rendo, RDNA, 3DCommune and a lot of free stuff as well, and this is only some of it.. All over 15 years of doing 3D rendering..
Accumulated about 30GB of content in about half a year.
A lot of it are freebies, though. And my actual spending has slowed down considerably recently. Let's keep it that way, fingers crossed.
My DIM downloads add up to 748GB, I have 181GB in my /Data/Cloud folder (might be some overlap with DIM downloads, but not much), and 124GB not downloaded or installed with Connect (due to my data drive dying).
You know what I'm going to this right? lol...Its the only way I can find anything.
And I'm a wee bit embarassed by the size of my library now....
I'm not going to try to figure it out in gigabytes, but I know that I have accumulated a lot of stuff. My product library for the Daz store has 186 pages. Of course, that includes quite a few freebies and bundle add-ons. That is just Daz. I had Poser back in the day, so I've got quite a bit of content from the old ContentParadise and RuntimeDNA stores - not all of the RDNA stuff transferred to Daz. In addition to download sites, I've got an assortment of free models and other free resources that were included in old handbooks, programs, and similar - in addition to the freebies posted on the personal websites of our very generous community. Then ther is Renderosity.
I probably could have retired early. Shakes head and seeks out comfort food.
How much content do I have?
WAY. TOO. MUCH.
About 530 gigs total installed, not counting what isn't installed.
Laurie
too many GB split between various sources; mainly Daz. Each source: Renderosity (for example) are kept in their own library, as are freebies.
Oh goodness, I didn't even think to check the cloud folder. That means I probably have way more than I thought I did... YIKES!
How are you doing that? Just trying to remember what things are freebies and what aren't, and then moving them manually?
Divamakeup, I had to reinstall Daz due to a computer problem, so what I did was use DIM to uninstall EVERYTHING. Once that was done, what was left in my content folders was only freebies (and Renderosity stuff, but I didn't have too much of that). I then moved all of that to a new folder before I reinstalled my Daz stuff. Viola, freebies and Daz content separated!
It was a rather extreme solution, but since I had to reinstall everything anyway, it worked out for me.
Ohhhhh Cool idea! Hmmmm I might have to try that. Does that mess with any custom categories?
The issue, imo, isn't how much you own, but how much you still have to use.
I haven't chacked but its got to be over a 1TB
I did something similar . I separated my content on their own drives. and use windows search to locate content. Boy did that ever make life easier finding things. Plus it allows me to use more than one computer to access my content folders so I can build one scene on my lap top while rendering a scene on my render rig. plus when needed i can just add another HHD drive as much as i spent on 3d content hard drives are cheap in comparison.
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Render rig C/drive 524 gig SSD is just for my system, everything else goes on their own drives running through USB3 super hub.
Laptop c/drive 264 gig SSD is just for my system networked with USB 3
2 TB Portable External Hard drive 1 - All my daz content only ~ 407 gigs
2 TB Portable External Hard drive 2 - All my renderosity & miscellaneous third party poser content. ~ 279 gigs
2 TB Portable External Hard drive 3 - All my bill board props& flat panes & shaders 149 gigs
2 TB Portable External Hard drive 4- is for my own custom made 3d content, textures and animation storage 80 gigs
1 TB passport SSD - drive 5 as a project drive. ( just used for creating & rendering my 3d projects on)
4 TB Seagate Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 . for my system & storage back up, using Kaspersky back up utility. to make shadow copy of selected drives before shut down. The size of the stuff stored on this drive changes with every back up. currently its at 3.2TB's used. Back up is most important in my 3d world
Adding up my libraries, about 283 GB, with DIM reporting another ~50 GB of content that I probably won't install most of until I upgrade my hard drive. (I've got the space for it, but I don't desperately need it just yet).
I've been stricter than that - I've got separate libararies for each 3D store, a freebies library, and a "self-made content" library. It helps that I've been through the same rigmarole with other programs in the past.
DIM has me at just over 4000 products and counting (take into account additional files for Poser versions that are sometimes required for older products) but my folder size is surprizingly only 267GB. Invoices go as far back as 2005.
Lots of freebies and lots of spending. And I don't see it stopping any time soon as long as there's still stuff coming out that I can use.
I would think you really could not go by how much space is taken by content as a measure for how much content you have. Because i have some products that count as 1 product with over a gig for each download. riversoft bill board props are huge like that,some sets are 12 gigs.. but still is only counted as one product. and if you are like me that download and install everything manually, that is possible, it makes it hard to use dimm as accurate measure of how much content is actually installed through dimm,
there are 3rd party catalogers that count and organize your content . But my experience has been those can be difficult to use and keep updated. that is properly why i keep falling back on windows search.
I am almost ashamed to say that I own much too much of DAZ products. This hobby sure is expensive, and I've hardly used nowhere near half of the products I have. I am thinking of taking up sewing as a hobby to replace 3D. Pillows anyone?!
I have 340 GB in the Daz Connect data and 199 GB in DIM content library folder. Compared to some of you, I'm way behind!
That doesn't count old old stuff that I don't have installed anymore, I guess.