1TB ain't enough.

[Sitrueis]

Good evening guys,
I know it shouldn't surprise me, while downloading Mass Effect Legendary Edition my drive is getting full, so my question is simple how much you guys use and how many games do you have installed ? Cause I mostly uninstall those that I´m done with for now.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

hoarding...

i think this is the new modern digital hoarding...

intertwined with fear of loss...

i have cd and dvd just gathering dust and
taking up space these days...

there is very few things that cant be left in
online storage til you want to use it again..

i also used to save youtubes of music clips... but i dont need
to do that either now that getting it on youtube is more profitable
than spoon feeding viewers on tv shows and radio...

sure you can play all your games and media all the time... but is that what your doing..

[NuLife]

Publicado originalmente por ragefifty50:

hoarding...

i think this is the new modern digital hoarding...

It saves the need to download, and it gives the sense of ownership

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

Publicado originalmente por NuLife:

Publicado originalmente por ragefifty50:

hoarding...

i think this is the new modern digital hoarding...

It saves the need to download, and it gives the sense of ownership

yes..
that would be fear of loss not trusting modern tech...

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Wasting bandwidth is a concept that most people from North America seem to fail to understand...

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

Publicado originalmente por Eagle_of_Fire:

Wasting bandwidth is a concept that most people from North America seem to fail to understand...

funny statement...

i think most people on this post would be
on unlimited download plans for home internet...

i could be wrong....

i am also guilty of having a few 1 and 2 tb usb
hard drives floating around when i had the mind
set to save everything all the time because you
never know when its all going to crash...

to answer the op's question...

of the 2.5tb that came with this computer i have 1.7tb free
and 15 or so games installed.. 5 or so games i play more
than most..

[Garou]

I have 7TB across my several drives and the are all getting full

[Sitrueis]

Publicado originalmente por Eagle_of_Fire:

Wasting bandwidth is a concept that most people from North America seem to fail to understand...

I'm so glad, I'm not from NA.

[Karumati]

Publicado originalmente por Eagle_of_Fire:

Wasting bandwidth is a concept that most people from North America seem to fail to understand...

If you have fast enough internet to download any game in less than 15min then it could be justified, but even with these speeds it’s much easier to just have everything installed prior

[NakiBest]

Eastern Europe here. :) (So not USA.)

No NVme here, as all my PCs/1 laptop are quite old - only SATA3 and USB 3.0 available (aka USB 3.1 Gen1.)

On PC I am using now I got Intel Haswell Core i3, baby! :-D
(With 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, the max for this budget mobo.)

I am a storage junkie, so on this particular desktop PC I have:
1) Samsung QVO 8 TB SATA3 SSD as main/OS SSD drive. ~50% of it is free space.
2) Seagate SkyHawk 8 TB HDD.
3+4) Seagate Exos X18 18 TB HDDs - one internal, one external in Orico dock.
5) WD_BLACK Xbox HDD, external USB 3.1 - 12 TB.
6) WD Red HDD, external USB 3.1 - 10 TB, again in an Orico dock.
7) Plenty of non-connected fast (mostly) USB flash drives too, plus 1 external SSD as well. :)
8) Non-HDD/SSD/flash - internal ASUS BluRay/DVD drive.
Don't use it much, but sometimes need to (do not burn anything, only read).

My external flash drives range from 16 GB for smallest USB drive (not very fast), to 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB Kingston flash drive. (some drives are Sandisk, others Kingston)

And my external SSD is Sandisk Extreme Portable 4 TB. (yes, the suddenly dying kind :) )
Speed somewhat limited due to not having USB 3.1 Gen 2, nor USB 3.2, but is good enough. :)

[Sitrueis]

Publicado originalmente por NakiBest:

Eastern Europe here. :) (So not USA.)

No NVme here, as my PCs are quite old - only SATA3 and USB 3.0 available (aka USB 3.1 Gen1.)
Intel Haswell Core i3, baby! :-D
(With 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, the max for this budget mobo.)

I am a storage junkie, so on this particular desktop PC I have:
1) Samsung QVO 8 TB SATA3 SSD as main/OS SSD drive. ~50% of it is free space.
2) Seagate SkyHawk 8 TB HDD.
3+4) Seagate Exos X18 18 TB HDDs - one internal, one external in Orico dock.
5) WD_BLACK Xbox HDD, external USB 3.1 - 12 TB.
6) WD Red HDD, external USB 3.1 - 10 TB, again in an Orico dock.
7) Plenty of non-connected fast (mostly) USB flash drives too, plus 1 external SSD as well. :)
8) Non-HDD/SSD/flash - internal ASUS BluRay/DVD drive.
Don't use it much, but sometimes need to (do not burn anything, only read).

My external flash drives range from 16 GB for smallest USB drive (not very fast), to 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB Kingston flash drive. (some drives are Sandisk, others Kingston)

And my external SDD is Sandisk Extreme Portable 4 TB. (yes, the suddenly dying kind :) )
Speed somewhat limited due to not having USB 3.1 Gen 2, nor USB 3.2, but is good enough. :)

Hah thats lot of hdds xD Kingston is always nice to have.

[PocketYoda]

Currently running 250gb SSD (win 10 OS) two NVMe M.2 1tb SSDs (For games) and two 7200 rpm HDD 2tb and 3tb.. For Storage and an external 4tb WD for storage.

I plan on upgrading some time soon.

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

2x 250gb ssd
1x 1TB hdd
1x 2TB hdd

plenty enough for about 750 games

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

you can always go for the extended route of 8x 12TB hdds for 96TB of storage

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

I currently have 1.5 TB of NVME / SSD storage in my gaming computer (3 x 500 GB in RAID-0, they were cheap. I mean $40/each cheap for Samsung 970 evo plus drives, black friday sales, woo!) and I'm currently saving up and watching NVME / SSD prices. If the prices continue to drop I have plans next year to upgrade this computer to 12 TB of NVME storage (3 x 4TB). I also have a file server / NAS with 22TB (12 x 2TB SATA SSD's, RAID-5) with a 10-Gigabit-Ethernet link between the two machines (1100 MB/s read and write sustained). I have the file server mounted as a virtual drive letter on my gaming computer. File server link isn't quite as fast as "local" NVME storage on my computer but it's fast enough that I can install my lesser-used games over that and launch and play them over the network. If SSD prices drop further I might double the NAS server to 44 TB next year too. Currently 2TB SATA SSD's were about $70/each when I bought those (but they're down to about $60/each new now) so that's affordable for 12 of em. We just need the 4TB SATA ones to drop to below $100/each, and the 4TB NVME drives to also drop to below $100/each. Then "Big Storage" will be a lot more affordable for everyone.

[happy]

Publicado originalmente por Qbert ⭐:

Publicado originalmente por craigsters:

Dell cheaped out on me on this PC they sold me, it came with one terabyte drive and the OS is on it, I can only have 10 games installed at once

My previous Dell PC had 2 drives, a smaller kingston drive for the OS and a terabyte drive

My current and previous PC are Alienware Aurora R12 and R7

That's why you dont buy brand pcs

Especially not DELL