Hi everyone, long-time lurker but first-time poster here!
I’ve been working on a pretty extensive urban planning model in SketchUp recently (lots of imported components, high-poly vegetation, you know the drill). The file size has ballooned to over 600MB, and I’m starting to experience significant lag, especially during auto-saves or when reloading components.
I recently upgraded my workstation to try and combat this. I’m running a decent CPU and GPU, but my storage setup is a bit unique. I repurposed an older enterprise workstation, so I’m running my drives through an HBA & Controllers SAS Controller Smart Array setup rather than direct NVMe on the motherboard. It’s great for redundancy and massive storage capacity for my texture libraries, but I’m wondering if the seek times or throughput on this older controller architecture might be creating a bottleneck for SketchUp’s specific way of handling temp files and caching.
Has anyone else here tried running heavy SketchUp models off of enterprise-grade storage controllers? I’ve noticed the lag is worst when the "Saving..." progress bar pops up. Is SketchUp particularly sensitive to storage latency compared to raw throughput? I’m debating whether I should just move my active project files to a simple local SSD to see if that helps, or if I’m just hitting the polygon ceiling of the software itself.
Any insights on optimizing storage specifically for large SketchUp files would be super appreciated!