Is there a way to change the path to where the render cache is stored? It defaults to the C: drive, and mine is a SSD. I'd like to move it to a standard HDD to minimize the wear and tear on thge C: drive.

If you change the Temp Files location to another drive (General Preferences, Misc tab) it should store the render cache in that location (requires restart of Poser)

my C: is SSD too, and I moved all temp and autosave folders to a HDD and some to B: (my RAM drive, that's fast! and empty at reboot, so not for autosave). Windows, Office, Photoshop, Vue, Poser, Video-editor, Internet browsers, the space for the Indexing, all of them. My SDD is for static use only: program files, manuals. For holding the content library it's too small and too expensive.

Sorry for the dumb question, but I thought SSD was immune from wear and tear?

I know they have a limited read/write cycle but I thought it was supposed to be way in excess of a mechanical HDD.  I was thinking of getting my first SSD soon, but I'm not so sure now!

they indeed improved quite a lot from the initial ones, it's an OS issue too. From Win7 SP1 on they're handled much better. But they're still not my favorites for very frequent random writes. In the meantime, nothing beats my RAMdrive.

Actually, I have no long-time using experience with SDD's. For HDD's, I've lost only one in the last 35 years (maybe about 30 disks used in that period).

For randow reads, the RAMdrive is 10x to 50x faster than SSD, and the SSD is 10x faster than HDD. For random writes, the SSD and HDD are about similar, and the RAMdrive is at least 100x faster than both.

But since I've run into scenes which generate over 10Gb of TextureCache, I'm not putting all than on my RAMdrive in all cases. Having all that on HDD did not present noticeable slowdowns, so ...

I wouldn't be worried about this as per those tests,SSD should last this and much more

Please have look on those threds

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-the-endurance-of-tlc-nand

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/5196/samsung-840-ssd-storage-endurance-testing-tlc-to-the-end/index3.html

http://www.vojcik.net/samsung-ssd-840-endurance-destruct-test/

I've bought few months ago Samsung 840 PRO SSD and my SSD already written 3.58TB,if I'm worried no

Thanks,Jura

Cheers aRtBee, but when you say RAMdrive, do you mean you sort of pre-populate your RAM on startup and run everything from RAM?

Sorry jura, crossposted, will check 'em out, thanks!

Pumeco: a RAMdrive is a portion of physical RAM which acts as a drive, with folders and files, and completely manageable by Explorer as any other drive. One can choose to have a clean one each startup, or to save the contents at shutdown (to a HDD) and get it filled back again at startup. Unfortunately, a RAMdrive cannot survive power-outages and other irregular shutdowns. But it's great for temps and caches, blazing fast.

In my case, the drive is called B:, set to 4Gb max from my 24Gb ram, so I've got 20Gb left for programs etc. When programs need more, the drive can shrink dynamically.

I use the one from QSoft (http://winramtech.hostei.com/RAMDriv/ nowadays) but https://www.raymond.cc/blog/12-ram-disk-software-benchmarked-for-fastest-read-and-write-speed/ presents some comparisons. Take your pick.

Yup, that's what I was thinking, what would happen in a crash or power cut - all gone!

I'll take a look although I doubt I'd use it, or perhaps it might come in handy for streaming more tracks of audio than the HDD's can handle, I've wanted that more times than I care to remember!

Thanks!