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So...I have three hard drives in my desktop. C: drive is a small SSD that has only operating system files on it. D: drive is appropriately called storage, and it's 2TB. E: drive is where I keep all of my programs, including DAZ Studio. It's 500GB, and...it has 42GB of free space left. I knew damn well what was taking up all of that space, but just how much I wasn't sure. Now I know. 

I looked at the properties for the 'My DAZ3D Library' folder. It is at 300+GB! This is just that folder, it doesn't include the Poser folder that I have linked to Studio to drag in vintage shit from time to time. I think I'm gonna have to reconfigure Studio and put that folder into my D: drive, or I'm gonna run out of space really soon. I tend to buy a couple hundred dollars worth of content per month on average. 

So, 300GB. What are all of you at? 

Hey Matt! When I upgraded to my desktop instead of using my (non Nvidia) laptop for this I thought to myself "Self, get a separate 1TB hard drive inside it." I bought one within two weeks of my new desktop, installed it myself (which sucked because I know nothing about computer hardware), and dedicated it to simply Daz Studio stuff. I don't know how to add a picture on here, but that drive is currently up to 547 gigs. That doesn't count Daz actually running and having duplicate files on my C drive. And it's amateur compared to someone like Shadoman who's been doing it since slightly after I found out internet porn was a thing.

Also, you know what sucks? C:\ vs E:\ drive save files. It takes me forever, if I ever want to go back to something I worked on with my laptop, to get it running correctly on my desktop. It's always like "I can't find the boob morphs on C, even though you have them as the primary on your E drive... I suck balls, and not in a way Renderotica enjoys...". My suggestion is to get a new, bigger drive, transfer everything onto that, and name that 'E', so you don't feel my pain. Unless you like that sort of thing!

Originally Posted by: matt

So...I have three hard drives in my desktop. C: drive is a small SSD that has only operating system files on it. D: drive is appropriately called storage, and it's 2TB. E: drive is where I keep all of my programs, including DAZ Studio. It's 500GB, and...it has 42GB of free space left. I knew damn well what was taking up all of that space, but just how much I wasn't sure. Now I know. 

I looked at the properties for the 'My DAZ3D Library' folder. It is at 300+GB! This is just that folder, it doesn't include the Poser folder that I have linked to Studio to drag in vintage shit from time to time. I think I'm gonna have to reconfigure Studio and put that folder into my D: drive, or I'm gonna run out of space really soon. I tend to buy a couple hundred dollars worth of content per month on average. 

So, 300GB. What are all of you at? 

Well I thought I would quote you because please remember you did ask.

Ok just the drives now. I have one MVME.2 1T drive with software (Operating system, and other software like daz, 3DS Max, and yes even Poser). I have quick replace drawers in this computer, 3 slides each with 6T drives, Two external drives to hold assets, drive one is a 6T, Drive two is actually two 6T  running as one drive. Now before anyone says anything nasty, please keep in mind that I used to work for a production company, that worked on movies. I have retired but just cannot keep my hands off this stuff. I also have 4 3T unmounted drives.

My Art (E:) 4TB drive is where I have my Daz Library which is at 2.55 TB right now lol.  It also contains my 7GB Daz 3D folder (DIM, DS, DS Public Build, Hexagon & Install Manager files).  I had to resort to deleting all the archives from the Install Manager folder after each product gets installed because I would've definitely run out of room a long time ago.  Mind you I keep my 3rd party (from here, *deleted*, etc) downloads on my portable 2 TB G: drive as backups which is sitting at 891GB just for my Daz Stuff folder.  And then there's my 10TB Games & Mods (F:) folder which only has 2.44TB left lol.

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Jesus, some of you have a lot of content! Yeah, I do have a tendency to grab things because I *think* I might use it for something, but I'm doing a lot less of that now. Kristin, those loading times are insane.

You guys make me feel quite frugal.

My DAZ library is 1.9GB on a 1TB drive in a workstation laptop. I did clean out a lot of my old Poser and Studio content, which I no longer use.

I have 670GB of free space left despite the various art and design applications I have installed as well as other things. Eventually I will probably have to install another SSD drive.

Originally Posted by: Zeppelin

I've always been judicious about my purchases and adding to my library because of the size of files. Just one HDRI package can add hundreds of megabytes to you library. My current library is around 80 Gigs. I started with Poser 2 when it was owned by Fractal, before Meta Creations, before efrontier, before Smith Micro. (I'm an "old fuck", quoting George Carlin) When I import a model from poser I make a copy of the geometry and materials in the Daz runtime library, so it will be be self sufficient and not rely on an external link.

I used to use Vue to import and render in landscapes, it had a good render engine, but the files were very large and you can't export anything unless you have the pro version which cost a lot. When Daz studio started, I waited until the reviews and the artwork being produced made mw want to switch. I've punted all my old Vue files

I try to be judicious anymore, not just grabbing something that I may have a use for later. I got a bunch of the NowCrowd billboard sets over at Daz, and they are HUGE! I've yet to do anything with them either, LOL!