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Storage options for Daz content: External hardrive?

HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,664
edited May 2015 in New Users

I, like many of you I'm sure, am acquiring quite a sizable amount of daz content and the HD is filling up rapidly. It won't be long till I run out of room. I was wondering what u guys do for storage. Is a External HD a good way to go, and if so how because I know my daz default content directory as instructed by Daz Studio was something like c:/public documents/daz content or something similar to that anyway. How does one go about doing this. Getting a larger internal HD may not work for me because I was not able to get the 'full retail' version of Windows 7 pro, as that was long sold out in stores. My only option seemed to be Win 7 pro "OEM" (that's the version I have now on my pc) and Microsoft is funny about upgrading hardware with oem software.
Thanks

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  • DekeDeke Posts: 1,635
    edited December 1969

    I am on a mac tower and have a 1TB hard drive internal that is dedicated to Daz content and rendering. I suppose it would be smart to use a third HD for renders.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,594
    edited December 1969

    I have heaps of externals as only have a small SSD
    my 3D content had a 2TB one all of its own
    even my programs mostly on another internal drive and have some rarely used ones on externals
    just point DIM and DAZ to it in preferences

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    edited December 1969

    I have WD My Passport as an external, where I store all my products. It's 3TB. They're very reliable, had for two years and no failures. It's always smart to back up your external though, they have been known to fail. Many people do the cloud thing, but I'm old school. :)

  • HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,664
    edited March 2019

    Thanks.

    Post edited by HorusRa on
  • ben98120000ben98120000 Posts: 469
    edited December 1969

    AFAIK OEM does not allow upgrades of motherboards. Everything else is fine, including hard drives upgrade.

  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384
    edited December 1969

    I'll second ben98120000's point. It is actually the motherboard's BIOS that the activation software hinges on. As said, you can safely upgrade just about anything else without re-activating. In fact, although the EULA may state otherwise, MS is pretty lenient about switching motherboards as well, often only requiring phone re-activation to deal with it, ensuring that you are not installing your copy of Windows on more than one PC. With the retail version, re-activation is more straightforward, but that is about the only practical difference. So, your options are open. If you have room, might I suggest installing a second internal drive, keeping the smaller one for a boot drive. That way you don't need to re-install windows or your applications at all - just move the data. There also are additional advantages to such a two-drive system.

  • DaikatanaDaikatana Posts: 830
    edited December 1969

    External drives work just fine for storing your content. I have been using a re purposed ! TB hard drive for about a year now. When I upgraded my PC I simply put my old hard drive in an external case ( decent ones are relatively inexpensive so its a good option for something like this ) and connect it via a high speed usb port. It works wonders.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    edited December 1969

    horus3523 said:
    ok thanks guys. A friend helped me out at work last night as well, and he looked up the Daz preferences thing, so I'm good to go with that when the time comes, probably when my taxes get here. I'm not sure what "WD My Passport" is though. I can google it though. Thanks again.

    http://www.wdc.com/en/products/external/portable/#
    WD is Western Digital :)

  • bobbbjmbnklbhjklbgjkhbobbbjmbnklbhjklbgjkh Posts: 41
    edited December 1969

    The ideal solution, although a tad pricey, is to get a NAS (Network Area Storage). It consists of a big box that holds four of your favourite hard drives and is best configured as a 'Raid5' device. This means that 1/4 of the space is taken up as redundancy for each drive. I have one with four, three TB drives giving me 9 TB of storage. If a drive goes bad I simply swap in a new one and the data is rebuilt from the redundant data on the other drives. I back up everything every few weeks including my much treasured collection of pron (*wink, wink*).
    I've spent over two grand on clothes and accessories for Vicky Four and the backup drive is cheap insurance.

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