New Bill Board Prop needs its own hard drive.

Ivy

I just bought this prop set and when I seen how big the downloads are I almost fainted.   there are 15 different downloads each about a 800MB or more each 

So for anyone interested in this set I must warn you.  . you will need a 1tb hard drive just to down load the the complete set.  I took a screen shot of my my product library  I really doubt that I will be able to load this into my content directory because how much space it uses ..  Just Wow

 

FSMCDesigns

Thanks for the warning, I'll have to pass as it would take me weeks to d/l this with my crappy internet. I still have 3 products in my products list that I havent d/led due to a crazy large file size, so I really appreciate the info Ivy!

TomCatOliver

I think you're adding it up wrong. If we say each part is an average of 800mb, then x15 would be around 12gb in total.

Ivy

The issue I have it it will need its own hard drive. I just don't have that kind of storeage space in my content folders , it would propely just take a couple of hours to download it all . But where the heck am I gunna put once I do..lol

Ivy

Odd_Platypus said:

I think you're adding it up wrong. If we say each part is an average of 800mb, then x15 would be around 12gb in total.

really then how would you add it up look at the product ibrary I posted  it shows each download size and there are 15 downloads so how would you add it up.. I have contacted the vender on advice on how to handle the download size

 

Fishtales

Even taking them as all 1 GB in size only makes the total 15 GB.

Ivy

15 gigs in a content drive is huge for one product. do you think?

TomCatOliver

Ivy said:

Odd_Platypus said:

I think you're adding it up wrong. If we say each part is an average of 800mb, then x15 would be around 12gb in total.

really then how would you add it up look at the product ibrary I posted  it shows each download size and there are 15 downloads so how would you add it up.. I have contacted the vender on advice on how to held the download size

 

A 1TB drive is 1024Gb. A couple of the files in the screenshot are 1Gb in size, the others are less. Even if they were all 1Gb that would still be just 15Gb. Still a hefty chunk of space for just one product though.

Ivy

that was my point. I already have 4 tb drives almost full of installed content. not including storage back up drives.   I am hoping the the downloads are cumulative and not stack up the mb's when you install them.  like I said I contacted the vender on some advice.

jag11

Whatever the total, you need to multiply by 2, cause you need to download and then install.

SimonJM

And I to think I winced at the MCMMM texture/shader set of 3 x 400MB files .. ;)  I hope to hell that they never need to update the metadata!

Richard Haseltine

jag11 said:

Whatever the total, you need to multiply by 2, cause you need to download and then install.

You can delete the installer, or place it on an off-line external drive. These are (fairly high-resolution by the look of it) images to be used as background elements so they are inevitably large - you could always install, back up to off-line media, and batch resize if you don't expect to need them at full resolution.

Ivy

SimonJM said:

And I to think I winced at the MCMMM texture/shader set of 3 x 400MB files .. ;)  I hope to hell that they never need to update the metadata!

Now you can imagine the shock I got when I opened the product library on this set...lol  I have your bill board props  they are only 300 mb thats managable.. this set not so much 

Ivy

Thanks to Riversoft   the solution .. is to put the content on a thumb drive. . Perfect. :)