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Can I have daz 3d on one hard drive and content on another

starforgestarforge Posts: 5
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)
I am building a new pc. Got an amazing deal on a 1070 for $200 new in box when the 20xx came out and everyone decided the 10xx were dead. The issue I am having is on the the hard drive ssd or mechanical to put daz on. Can I put the main program on the ssd and all of the content on the mechanical?

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  • JonnyRayJonnyRay Posts: 1,744

    That's how I have mine setup. You just need to make sure your paths in Studio (including Daz Connect) and Daz Install Manager (if you use it) point to a folder on your second drive. Personally, I like to just change "C:" to "D:" and leave the rest of the path alone to make things easier on myself. :)

  • starforgestarforge Posts: 5
    I thank you and so does my wallet.
  • LenioTGLenioTG Posts: 2,118

    Listen, you can do it, but according to my personal experience, it's much slower.

    I've tried either to put my Daz products on a standard 3.5" new formatted HDD and on an NVME SSD, and the gap in loading time each time I use anything is noticeable! I'd take a 250Gb SATA SSD at least, they're as cheap as 60$ nowadays!

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,590
    edited April 2019
    TGFan4 said:

    Listen, you can do it, but according to my personal experience, it's much slower.

    I've tried either to put my Daz products on a standard 3.5" new formatted HDD and on an NVME SSD, and the gap in loading time each time I use anything is noticeable! I'd take a 250Gb SATA SSD at least, they're as cheap as 60$ nowadays!

    That's true, but I'd need about 39 of those SSDs! devil

    P.S. I also moved 'My Documents' and 'My Downloads' off the SSD.

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  • LenioTGLenioTG Posts: 2,118
    prixat said:
    TGFan4 said:

    Listen, you can do it, but according to my personal experience, it's much slower.

    I've tried either to put my Daz products on a standard 3.5" new formatted HDD and on an NVME SSD, and the gap in loading time each time I use anything is noticeable! I'd take a 250Gb SATA SSD at least, they're as cheap as 60$ nowadays!

    That's true, but I'd need about 39 of those SSDs! devil

    P.S. I also moved 'My Documents' and 'My Downloads' off the SSD.

    Wow...how big is your Daz library?

    I just have a 250Gb SSD for both Daz and Windows 10 :'( I'm filling it up, and that's not good, but in order to add another SSD I'd have to change case, but before those expenses, I definitely need a new GPU...

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078
    edited April 2019

    @TGFan4 "Wow...how big is your Daz library?"

    Installed content is 1.2TB and that's not as big as some. Some of us have been at this awhile.

     However, even with content on an external USB drive, loads times are still a small fraction of the time spent creating the scene, then rendering (even with a fast Nvidia card).

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  • starforgestarforge Posts: 5
    My genesis 3 and 8 only are about 1 tb my gen 2 is at least 1.5 tb and that is only the assets my 4tb external is just packed full of stuff ????
  • LenioTGLenioTG Posts: 2,118
    fastbike1 said:

    @TGFan4 "Wow...how big is your Daz library?"

    Installed content is 1.2TB and that's not as big as some. Some of us have been at this awhile.

     However, even with content on an external USB drive, loads times are still a small fraction of the time spent creating the scene, then rendering (even with a fast Nvidia card).

    And I thought I had a nice library with 100Gb of content! xD

    Well I mostly make comics, so I write the scenes and then I go back and forth between different rooms etc., so I need the loading time to be fast! This is not my work and I can't waste 20 minutes per day waiting for stuff to load around :(

    As for the renders, I don't have a fast GPU, but I queue renders when I'm not home, so I don't really care about that part!

    starforge said:
    My genesis 3 and 8 only are about 1 tb my gen 2 is at least 1.5 tb and that is only the assets my 4tb external is just packed full of stuff ????

    A lot of stuff xD

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    TGFan4 said:

    Listen, you can do it, but according to my personal experience, it's much slower.

    I've tried either to put my Daz products on a standard 3.5" new formatted HDD and on an NVME SSD, and the gap in loading time each time I use anything is noticeable! I'd take a 250Gb SATA SSD at least, they're as cheap as 60$ nowadays!

    Something is up with your system NVME is significantly faster than SATA.

    To the OP, yes, you can certainly do that, I do. Considering the size of 3d assets ifyou acquire very many an SSD, or set of SSD's, would be very expensive. 4 and 6 Tb HDD's are fairly affordable.

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