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I'm moving my DAZ Studio content to an 8TB drive

Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,113
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I've worked for a few years with a 3TB hard drive for my DAZ content. I've continually run out of space.

I had an external 8TB hard drive in my multimedia setup. Then I bought 14TB hard drives for the multimedia files.

Now I'm repurposing the external 8TB hard drive for DAZ Studio!

(I was foolish to think I could fit my stuff onto an external 2TB SSD. That will be moved over to a different computer!)

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  • TomhipTomhip Posts: 572

    I am in middle of migrating my DAZ installation to a new 4TB SSD drive on a new PC :D

    Decided to do the crazy thing and instead of copying the old 2TB Library to install everything from scratch and curate things that go in this time. 

    Originally when I have started with DAZ I went thorough a phase of installing every single freebie I would find, be it form DAZ or other sites. Cleaning this up now would be next to impossible.

    Decided on strategy of first instaling all things that I own on third party sites and clean folder structure up as these can be prety random. Then install things required for models i frequently use. Next will be slow installation of props/envs that I know are good and will use again.

    The improvement in loading times is crazy. Will see how long it lasts.

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,312

    My old stationary computer's Nvidia graphics card has crashed after 5 and half years of use,

    so I have switched to laptop for my Daz and the other graphics purposes.

    The internal hard disk space is not enough for my library of the files,

    so I have connected external Kingston 2 TB SSD drive via USB.

    So far so good and I am happy with this setup.

    Previously I have had mechanical drive with 12 TB capacity and I have filled it quickly.

    Now I am more careful on what I install on the laptop with such a limited capacity.

     

  • bshugs1525871bshugs1525871 Posts: 183

    I had moved my library to a NAS.  The drives are HDD, but the RAID array makes up for most of that lag. Currenlty using 1GB ethernet, but hope to increase it to 10GB soon. 

    Tomhip said:

    I am in middle of migrating my DAZ installation to a new 4TB SSD drive on a new PC :D

    Decided to do the crazy thing and instead of copying the old 2TB Library to install everything from scratch and curate things that go in this time. 

    Originally when I have started with DAZ I went thorough a phase of installing every single freebie I would find, be it form DAZ or other sites. Cleaning this up now would be next to impossible.

    Decided on strategy of first instaling all things that I own on third party sites and clean folder structure up as these can be prety random. Then install things required for models i frequently use. Next will be slow installation of props/envs that I know are good and will use again.

    The improvement in loading times is crazy. Will see how long it lasts.

    Hey there!  I recently reinstalled my OS and Daz and am thinking about doing this.  Can you give any hints or tools you used to do this?  I'd really love to streamline my hard drive but I have thousands of Daz store products and thousands more third-party/free products.  Did you do everything manually?  What folder structure did you insist on?  Do you use metadata or just the Content Library?
    Any help would be appreciated!  I still have my original, bloated library but would love to reduce search time and clear out crappy props and Akio3 dresses I'll never use.

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,113
    edited May 19

    One huge tip from my experiene is to install all the DAZ Content on an external hard drive.

    That way you can easily move the entire drive over to a new computer.

    I only use the Content Library to navigate my collection. I don't bother with Smart Content.

    I don't bother with DAZ's database, et.

    In my latest adventure, I sorted through all my DAZ original install files. I collected all the Genesis files in one folder.

    I gave DIM that one folder or Genesis originals and let DIM install those files. Later on, I made a copy of that folder, and manually rearranged the "facing" folders to my liking.

    (Edited to fix my typos,)

     

    Post edited by Ron Knights on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,079

    "User facing"- the ones that you see in the content panes. The ones in Runtime and data are, for daz Studio formats, not user facing as you should never see them or interact wth  them directly during regular use of the application (which means they are called up by references in the user facing files, and so should not be moved).

  • TomhipTomhip Posts: 572

    bshugs1525871 said:

    I had moved my library to a NAS.  The drives are HDD, but the RAID array makes up for most of that lag. Currenlty using 1GB ethernet, but hope to increase it to 10GB soon. 

    Tomhip said:

    I am in middle of migrating my DAZ installation to a new 4TB SSD drive on a new PC :D

    Decided to do the crazy thing and instead of copying the old 2TB Library to install everything from scratch and curate things that go in this time. 

    Originally when I have started with DAZ I went thorough a phase of installing every single freebie I would find, be it form DAZ or other sites. Cleaning this up now would be next to impossible.

    Decided on strategy of first instaling all things that I own on third party sites and clean folder structure up as these can be prety random. Then install things required for models i frequently use. Next will be slow installation of props/envs that I know are good and will use again.

    The improvement in loading times is crazy. Will see how long it lasts.

    Hey there!  I recently reinstalled my OS and Daz and am thinking about doing this.  Can you give any hints or tools you used to do this?  I'd really love to streamline my hard drive but I have thousands of Daz store products and thousands more third-party/free products.  Did you do everything manually?  What folder structure did you insist on?  Do you use metadata or just the Content Library?
    Any help would be appreciated!  I still have my original, bloated library but would love to reduce search time and clear out crappy props and Akio3 dresses I'll never use.

    It all was manual work really.

    I tend to use Smart Content for all the DAZ Store items but for third party they most often do not have any metadata so I moved them all to folders whwre I could easily find them. The only thing that has to be installed in fixed place is Runtime and Data folders. Everything else like poses, clothes etc can be freely moved around.

    In my old system I could never find these items as they were burrined in sea of DAZ Store items. Also many products come with typos or some non standard structure making them hard to find.

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