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

 

Angela my IT person says that size doesn't matter but rather the spin of my drive.

 

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.

 

I keep it simple, just adding more drives

 

In total, you have 307,577 GB (approximately 30 TB) of hard drive space.
Time to form a "data collector self-help group" or buy a new Seagate Exos m 3+36 TB drive!
www.seagate.com/de/de/products/enterprise-drives/exos/exos-m

 

We don't talk about what happened to Recoil's O: and P: drives.

 

well

my vst folder and the archive look something like that ,just snipped a part

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

 

at least keep them blue and stay hassle free ,also u hadnt one yet .
they live longer then too

 

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 .

 

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.

 

Over a few years ive bought about 4 ssd and 2 m2 so in total probably 6tb, all of them except for my main C: is for Sample libraries. C is just for windows and regular plugins , and my pdf's.

 

O, P is reserved for a future system update, it will be a special 5.25" bay for two drives, one HDD and one SSD, I just need to find some time for it

Edit: No one asked how I connected so many drives to one PC my Chinese friends helped me, I bought a special PCIe x1 expansion card with 10 SATA outputs.

 

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YES! When I first started warez-ing this problem made itself known quickly as more releases worth storing showed up. Learned very early on to work out a system whereby any/everything you ever download and store can be looked up in a flash and found easily and cleanly. I have used a disk cataloger proggy for years to catalog the contents of all storage media to a database. The media can be added to the database in about 30 seconds (this function is built into the cataloger), give or take, with varying levels of data collection gathered from the media. There are a few keywords used in release titles when storing like "KONTAKT" for those libraries or "SAMPLES" in the case of a pure sample library. But other than that all storage media are simply given unique names and any releases can be found by a simple name search. The search reveals on which storage media(s) that the search targets are located, and the release(s) retrieved in a matter of a seconds.

 

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yes of course, it takes a while, i use computers since 33 years and the first 10 years were a mess.

you first need to fail in a business, lose important data due to a broken HD, run into issues where you end up sitting in front of "stuffit.sit" while your life depends on unstuffing something quickly before you understand what you have to change - and act likewise.

besides data loss and creativity blocks, having learnded a craft and beeing a programmer can also help you to learn how to organize work.

keeping software and data as low as possible like some others suggested is also a solution (for the original problem by the OP).
but if you want to work with tons of data, the usual chaos system stops working and you need to find a new way.

 

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This is why we have backup imaging ware. Used correctly you can minimize or even squelch data loss altogether.

 

Endless organizing and consolidating.

 

automatic backup apps usually only allow a single disk as target, and they do not know what you consider important and what not. ;)

 

Not what I'm talking about. Auto-backup junk runs hot on the same OS that it's backing up. On windows with file locking and system file usage these things rarely give a complete and uncompromised backup image of the entire system (i.e. all drives physical and logical) and they use valuable resources in the process. What I am talking about is booting to a WinPE based backup imager (like truimage). This type of tool is the only thing that will ensure you're getting a complete failsafe image of the entire system. An image that you can easily and safely apply in case there is need to do a complete flatten and rebuild of the system, or grab single/multiple files in the case of a piecemeal restore of particular data.

 

I just used an excel document to list every thing, and where to find it, but early on (Kontakt 5) it became apparent to me I was collecting stuff for the sake of collecting. I stopped at Strawberry Guitars. But even things like Nexus 5 which have gone to well over half a terabyte seems redundant to me when I can merely create my own presets I want in Vanguard 2

Trueimage does have it's faults though when doing a complete backup of the entire system (when you use disc partition) Things like Omnisphere have to be re-registered. Not that it's much of a hardship.