Hi all. We’ve been working on some VR projects in 8K over the last month and are running out of space on our internal hard drives. (Currently, we use Dropbox for storage.)

My question is this: If we switched our Dropbox with all of our C4D files and assets etc from our internal drives to an external (let’s say a really fast SSD? Or RAID array?) will we see any speed loss in Cinema 4D? i.e. Will renders or simulations or viewport performance be slower vs working on an internal drive? Is the same true with Redshift, Octane, AE, Premiere, etc?

Also, do any of you have specific hard drives, set-ups, or other solutions that you’d recommend?

Thanks for your help!

-Ryan

Hi all,

Unfortunately, this was a project I did awhile ago (over 6 months ago) so I don't have the samples handy, but we had an issue where a scene I'd animated doing a cloth simulation of some paper being blown in the wind was nailed down and cached, but my employee's machine saw the simulation behaving differently on his machine than on mine. If I played the file on my machine, the simulation was cached and played correctly. If I played the file on Michael's it played differently (though I think it was also reading as cached on his too). I'm pretty sure I saved the cache to the project file itself vs externally and I'm pretty sure I used C4Ds built-in cloth sim engine. It would have been on C4D 2023 I suspect though.

Just curious if anyone's had that or a similar issue.

-Ryan