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Daz Studio and SSD's

joelmahla_35bb7f8756joelmahla_35bb7f8756 Posts: 2
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I'm building a new computer with a EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC+ GAMING 6GB Video Card, Crucial Ballistix Elite 32GB DDR4-2666 PC4-21300 CL16 Quad Channel Desktop Memory Kit and 2 Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drives (1 for windows etc and one for games)

My question is besides the faster read and write speeds of the SSD's is there any additional benefits to having Daz Studio on the SSD compared to a larger mechanial hard drive?

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  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943

    Personally I saved my SSD from the wear and tear of constantly being written to by DS and Daz3d.

    I created symbolic links ( http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/?PageSpeed=noscript ) for all of those Daz3d appdata folders (one for the database is 500 MB - not THAT much, but SSDs are usually a bit smaller than mechanical harddrives) just to move things to my second (mechanical) harddrive.

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,176

    Go ahead and pound the SSD - you'll be scrapping tyhe computer as obsolete long before you start seeing issues with the drive. See thiis link: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/46494/  Having said that - I keep the content on a mechanical, just because the content seems to keep growing and eating space . . . But the CMS Database, windows swap, and several other potentially high-use files live on my 512 GB SSD.

  • joelmahla_35bb7f8756joelmahla_35bb7f8756 Posts: 2

    Kerya and Namffuak

    Thank you for the links and confirming what I was already thinking, that there was no additional benifits to having Daz on an SSD other then the faster speeds of the SSD at least for now though the day is coming when all we will have in out computers is SSD's. I was planning on a couple of 4TB hard drives for this build so Daz will go on one of them

    Thank You Again

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    SSDs don't add anything significat, if at all, to render times.

    Considering how large libraries can get, I wouldn't use one for storage; having said that I do use one, and am soon going to buy a 1TB SSD; the 500GB I have is close to full of various items.

    I like SSDs for main use as the are quiet. I use mechanical hard disks for backups.

    They have found to be more robust that previous thought, and you'll find cheaper and larger ones available long before you wear it out.

    And a point worth noting about when they wear out: this relates to writes, or the writing of data, it is considered that you'll be able to read the data already there for up to fifty years. Presuming something else hasn't blown and the interface is still accessible. :)

  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438

    My info on SSDs may be outdated, but I remember one major drawback which put me off using them for storage. The fact that if an SSD dies, there's no way to recover any files from it all. I have an SSD and 2 HDDs, but I shudder to think of converting completely to SSDs and one day losing all my back-ups.

    I'd be happy to be contradicted on this point, and hopefully it's a thing of the past.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    maclean said:

    My info on SSDs may be outdated, but I remember one major drawback which put me off using them for storage. The fact that if an SSD dies, there's no way to recover any files from it all. I have an SSD and 2 HDDs, but I shudder to think of converting completely to SSDs and one day losing all my back-ups.

    I'd be happy to be contradicted on this point, and hopefully it's a thing of the past.

    Well, if a hard disk fails (any medium), there is always the possibility of the data being unroverable. That is why regular backups should be done; onsite/offsite (and secure). And not just business. And while it might be more recoverable from a mechanical HD, Seagate (who have a specialist team dealing with their own and thrid party devices) charge many thousands to recover it - or attempt to recover it.

    I have a NAS connected to backup to; I keep a seperate mechanical disk that I plug in using a caddy, and remove when not in use; basically my chances of losing all is limited becuase a virus would need to get on this disk when I plug it in for a few minutes; I also use cloud storage for important but not critical data; critical is banking and similar which includes passwords.

     

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