Share statistics of how much disc space per sample player
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 4:12 pm
As I am playing musical chairs right now to put off an expensive internal hard drive upgrade (I'd rather wait for 8 TB drives to come down in price than increment by 1 TB annually, to 6 TB, as I've been doing), I put together statistics of how much each sample player is contributing to my disc usage.
I thought it might be interesting for others to do the same, as I imagine many of us are part of a similar trend away from Kontakt being the overwhelming dominant engine and towards UVI/MachFive in particular grabbing more of our disc space.
In descending order, here is my library breakdown, rounded for easier comparisons.
1.8 TB Kontakt
1.2 TB Vienna Instruments
450 GB BFD
330 GB Play
305 GB UVI Sound Banks (UVI, Falcon, MachFive)
205 GB Toontracks (Superior, EZDrums, EZKeys)
145 GB Spectrasonics Instruments
135 GB SampleTank
52 GB Yellow Tools Engine
51 GB Vienna Imperial (separate player from Vienna Instruments)
30 GB Ivory
17 GB Iris
16 GB XLN Audio (Addictive Drums, Addictive Keys)
10 GB Steven Slate Drums
9 GB Drumagog
7 GB Geist
7 GB Trigger
5 GB Battery
Note that this list does not include stuff that I now allow to sit on my main SSD, due to how much effort it took to deal with updates otherwise, and as they're small enough (for the most part) to not make that big of a dent while simultaneously benefitting from the faster load times.
For instance, my Alchemy libraries (quite huge as I have most of them) now sit on my main SSD, as I'm nervous about how well Logic Pro will handle them going forward. Also all of my G-Force stuff.
I thought it might be interesting for others to do the same, as I imagine many of us are part of a similar trend away from Kontakt being the overwhelming dominant engine and towards UVI/MachFive in particular grabbing more of our disc space.
In descending order, here is my library breakdown, rounded for easier comparisons.
1.8 TB Kontakt
1.2 TB Vienna Instruments
450 GB BFD
330 GB Play
305 GB UVI Sound Banks (UVI, Falcon, MachFive)
205 GB Toontracks (Superior, EZDrums, EZKeys)
145 GB Spectrasonics Instruments
135 GB SampleTank
52 GB Yellow Tools Engine
51 GB Vienna Imperial (separate player from Vienna Instruments)
30 GB Ivory
17 GB Iris
16 GB XLN Audio (Addictive Drums, Addictive Keys)
10 GB Steven Slate Drums
9 GB Drumagog
7 GB Geist
7 GB Trigger
5 GB Battery
Note that this list does not include stuff that I now allow to sit on my main SSD, due to how much effort it took to deal with updates otherwise, and as they're small enough (for the most part) to not make that big of a dent while simultaneously benefitting from the faster load times.
For instance, my Alchemy libraries (quite huge as I have most of them) now sit on my main SSD, as I'm nervous about how well Logic Pro will handle them going forward. Also all of my G-Force stuff.