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Working from a Cloud Drive on Mac in Daz Studio

Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,715
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Has anyone set up their Studio to run from content in their private Cloud Drive?  I'm on Mac. I actually need to work on both my Mac and PC. The PC is primarily for renders and my MacBook Pro as my work computer and thought if I could set up all my content on a Cloud Drive, both machines could access it.

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  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,504
    Cris Palomino said:

    Has anyone set up their Studio to run from content in their private Cloud Drive?  I'm on Mac. I actually need to work on both my Mac and PC. The PC is primarily for renders and my MacBook Pro as my work computer and thought if I could set up all my content on a Cloud Drive, both machines could access it.

    I'm not sure the speed through ethernet would be fast enough to make this worthwile; textures and geometry are gigs worth of data and it taxes even the bus speed of a computer.... quickly compair the throughput speed of a T1 ethernet vs the bus speed of a conventional hard drive. I would just copy the data over, mirror the libraries on the computer and reder locally.

  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,715

    Thanks, Nemesis. Maybe I should do it on a hard drive then. I just need it to be not on the computer itself, 1) I'd like to not have to install everything again on the PC, 2) I need those gigs back taken up by my content.

  • hyteckithyteckit Posts: 167
    edited April 2018
    Cris Palomino said:

    Has anyone set up their Studio to run from content in their private Cloud Drive?  I'm on Mac. I actually need to work on both my Mac and PC. The PC is primarily for renders and my MacBook Pro as my work computer and thought if I could set up all my content on a Cloud Drive, both machines could access it.

    I don't use a cloud drive, but a shared nas drive. That way I can have both my Mac and PC render the same scene using reality lux rendering.

    However, loading up assets into Daz is much slower when your assets are on a cloud/nas drive than a fast local hard drive.

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  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,424
    Cris Palomino said:

    Thanks, Nemesis. Maybe I should do it on a hard drive then. I just need it to be not on the computer itself, 1) I'd like to not have to install everything again on the PC, 2) I need those gigs back taken up by my content.

    I've installed the program itself on two machines and the data on a portable drive that I carry from one machine to the other and have very few issues, if that helps. 

    -- Walt Sterdan

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