Where do you keep your purchased items?
Hi,
just out of curiosity... I see that some of you have been using DAZ for over a decade, and see posts saying you have almost all of the items.
Where do you keep all of it? :)
Do you keep them all on the harddrive? How much space does it take up?
Do you just download the ones you need to use for a project?
How does it work?
I have VERY FEW items, and it's already almost 20 gigs. Not an issue, but I can't imagine how much 15 years' worth of items could be... :)
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Well since I use the DIM (Daz Install Manager) I have all my content installed to my content folder with Daz3D storing the purchases in my Product Library on my Account page. I set up DIM to keep the downloaded zip files on a separate HDD.
I see you've been around for 6 years, too. How much space does all this take up? (If it's not a secret. :) )
It can take up a lot of space, even in the compressed format of the downloaded content files. Unlike Szark, I don't use DIM, but prefer to manually download the .zip archives. DIM only works with content purchased here at the DAZ store, of course, so content purchased elsewhere needs to be downloaded manually anyway. I prefer to keep my own backup copies of content, rather than relying on the DAZ servers, and have a file server with multiple, relatively large drives for this purpose. This is in addition to those files that exist as extracted ("installed") data in my content folder for active use by DAZ Studio, Poser or Carrara. If you are concerned about hard drive space requirements, and what those requirements might be over time, here are my current stats: Backup compressed, purchased content = 43.9 GB. I can't tell you what that is uncompressed ("installed") in my content libraries, since they are spread over three PCs and not all content is installed everywhere or at any given time. But I can safely say that it would be significantly greater in size if it were all installed in one place. Of course, I also have a significant amount of free content accumulated over the years, taking up a whopping total of 76.7 GB of compressed data on my backup server. Again, not all of that is "installed" in any content folder for active use at any time. Even so, I do make it a standard practice to keep my content folders (runtime or content libraries) on sparate, larger data drives on my PCs, separate from my boot or system drives, that allows for expansion if necessary over time. I have been around for more than six years (and so has Szark, BTW) to get to the present point.
my DIM folder with all the downloads adds up to 73 GB
366GB
Thanks for all the responses. This seems managable, even the 366GB.
Based on my current items, I was thinking along the lines of several terrabytes. It seems I managed to get the bigger items first. :) 246 ZIP files totalling 12 GB.
It's not the gigabytes that matter, it's how you use them.
I was a little worried that even storing them will become an issue. It seems like it won't. :)
Assuming you back up your stuff properly so you can continue to grow your collection of goodies, Hard drive store space should keep outpacing your collecting habbits. I've been collecting for 15 years and even though data files get bigger, so do hard drives.
Over the course of a decade you will swap drives, probably a few times. Each time likley upgrading.