How do you guys manage disk space?

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  1. aymat

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    I try to keep it simple, when I run out of space...

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    Angela my IT person says that size doesn't matter but rather the spin of my drive.
     
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    Kontakt can be nice with putting your own field recordings, samples in it.

    I also avoid Kontakt libraries, but i do have a few saved, which i really love and which are also small enough and old enough to still.

    Opus2 and Opus1
    Alicia Keys
    EW RA

    Otherwise like mentioned already, Omnisphere with its satelites, works well for me.

    But man the size your can kill with Kontakt Libraries, EZ Drummer stuff, its crazy.
     
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    Some of them even sell their completely oversized versions on SSDs. I think they do it intentionally; they want to be the best. It reminds me of SUVs, which are wider and larger than normal vehicles. When I first downloaded Omnisphere, it took three days to download. I had to buy and burn dual-layer DVDs, and then spend several hours installing it all afternoon.

    User-friendly or in the best interests of the users? None! But it was good copy protection back then. The real revolution or evolution is Team R2R, Team Air, and all the others...! Oh, and that's still missing: you had to buy more and larger hard drives.
     
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    I keep it simple, just adding more drives :hahaha:
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    We don't talk about what happened to Recoil's O: and P: drives.
     
  8. Donald Reagon

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    well:mad:

    my vst folder and the archive look something like that ,just snipped a part
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    of course short names,folders never rar'ed
    of course i shrinking from time to time im into it cause i once had the dl monkey virus
    BUT i will never back down to keep that tree
    i do make heavy use of raxco perfect disk cause my archives are on hdd
     
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    at least keep them blue and stay hassle free ,also u hadnt one yet .
    they live longer then too
     
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    but for this , this seem very good strategy .thx
    but the bd thing i would only do after filtering ,actually i would only have the muse to burn main DAW and lets say a max of 20 plugins.
    samples are another story .i depend on fresh breaks and once used they not needed in the archive .

    i would say for archives never go beyond 3 levels of subfolders on windows .
    but what do i kno .what i kno is perfect disk keeps the needle super quiet on hdd .
    something i cant say bout other defraglers i used .
     
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    I would love to have a disk like that, but they are too expensive for me, 2TB HDDs are cheap, and I have greater sureness that in the event of a disk failure I will not lose more data than 2 TB. And It's a bit uncomfortable because I have special aluminum cases for these drives and backups. But that doesn't bother me, what matters is data security. :cheers:
     
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