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I decided to get another one and not use the drives anymore. The issue was not a drive failure but a system upgrade made all of my activations useless. The worst part is contacting the software developers to reset the activations. The quickest responder was Sound Toys and the slowest was AIR/Sonivox. A lesson learned, go with the stick.
Could you be more specific? Free ones usually get deleted after auditioning, Some have a lot of bloat to them and confuse loops with stems. I don't buy them unless there are midi files. I usually delete the wavs, keep the midi. This is after they've been archived on a storage drive.
UJAM products
We're not limiting the number of authorizations. Our license lets you install and run our products on multiple computers of yours. It also allows multiple users on ONE single machine but it does not allow for multiple users on multiple computers.
A word of caution about Air products. Use an iLok and not your drive. After a system upgrade all of my iLok authorizations on the drive need to be reset. I'm waiting on them to reset. Their support is slow to non existent.
Someone understands that drive space is not cheap when you have to buy it. IK's friendly licensing allows me to have it on 4 machines. If I lost a library I get it from another system. I always archive my purchases. I still have quite a few HDDs on a shelf and a drive dock.
I'm a big fan of Kontakt since NI has a compression that makes file sizes smaller.
The trend in all development these days is they have no regard for file size. Look at the size of some phone apps and games.