Running Daz Studio - SSD, M.2, HDD Question

DopeFusion

I have Daz Studio installed on my C:\ drive, a 1 TB M.2 SSD, and all of the content in one library on the D:\ drive, a 4 TB HDD. I picked up a 4 TB M.2 SSD on a Black Friday deal, installed it, moved all of my content to the new SSD, and remapped the paths in the Daz Studio application. I expected to see quite a boost in speed in loading characters, yet that is not the case. Even though both drives are SSDs (and both are WD_Black SN850X drives, just different storage sizes), I'm wondering if there is latency because the program is on one drive and the content on another. Any hardware junkies out there know how this stuff works under the hood? Would I get better speeds if I moved the Daz Studio application to the same drive as the content?

Chezjuan

I think that the speed of loading characters is dictated more by the number of things that Daz Studio has to load into RAM as opposed to the raw speed of the drive. If you have a lot of characters and custom morphs for a generation (e.g. Genesis 8.1), then Daz Studio loads all the morphs associated with the generation, and that is a lot of small files being read from multiple locations (random read). While the SSD reads them quickly, the system has to process the files and load them into RAM, which is where the bottleneck occurs. I don't think the location factors into it.

Loading aside, with my extensive library I do notice that scrolling through Smart Content is faster since the SSD does read a lot faster. Not earth shaking because they're small files, but it is noticable.

 

Richard Haseltine

A major contribution to load time for most figures is building the list of links between properties.

DopeFusion

Thank you, both, for your quick replies! Much appreciated!