Is 1 TB enough for mainly games?

[Netsa]

About to jump and put the big dent in my bank account, but still second-guessing my storage. Opted to buy just an m.2 terabyte drive (most of my non-game stuff is stored on a separate laptop). I can't shake the feeling that I might need extra storage, though, and I'm not sure why.

Should I add an extra hdd or something or stop worrying? Storage prices keep going down anyway, right, so would it be better to just buy the extra storage when I actually need it?

[Komrade]

We don't know how many games you have, so no one can say. Buy drives that fit your needs.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Depends how many games and how big ones you want to keep installed at all times.

[SoldierScar]

As others said depends on what and how many games..some games are already 150gb big. I would suggest buying intel 660p 2tb, very good bang for buck nvme m2 ssd for games storage.

[Zireth]

If you can afford it, go 2tb.

1tb is fine, but honestly some games are gonna pack it up.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

It`s always easy to add HDDs later for game library when you already have SSD installed, Steam games can be installed on multiple SSDs or HDDs including the OS SSD while keeping the Steam itself on OS SSD.

[Kaihekoa]

Newer games tend to take up 70 to 100+ GB for one installation, so I would try to get 2TB+ if you plan on playing a bunch of newer games. Intel 660p 2TB SSD makes a great game drive and is on sale for $170 at Newegg today.

[emoticorpse]

You should be able to look at my my games list. I have them all installed and it takes up 826 GB.

[RaccoonBiceps.♡]

1 TB here
21 Games (mix of old and new games) installed with about 5 development programs
and videos/pictures taking up about 20-30 GB space
sitting at about 216 GB currently

[Netsa]

I usually don't have a lot of newer games installed at the same time, specifically because they're so large. Thanks for all the responses, they made me panic less.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What would you be willing to spend is the question. Many games are fine running off a HDD, but some open world or otherwise demanding games tend to benefit from being on an SSD. I never have just one drive in any system as I feel that is rather foolish, but if you don't really ever put anything important on your gaming PC. A small ssd like m2 sata 250gb for os and a 1tb nvme ssd for games and video captures is a good way to go.

[Netsa]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I never have just one drive in any system as I feel that is rather foolish

What's wrong with having one drive?

[Komrade]

Originally posted by Netsa:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I never have just one drive in any system as I feel that is rather foolish

What's wrong with having one drive?

One drive goes down, everything goes down. And you want OS and games seperate, as the OS will use disk activity just being on the drive, then the game on the same drive as the OS will also use the disk.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's best to setup a pc so that if os drive dies or the os gets screwed up you can wipe c drive without really losing anything. Having all your games, downloads, and other personal files on a secondary drive helps. I could wipe C drive and back to playing my games in maybe 1-2 hours depending on what all needs to be done. It's easy to repair games that were downloaded to a seperate drive. Just install the game client back to C drive and have it find the games on the other drive, fairly easy.

For many folks, losing all of the installed games can be a big deal if isp speeds aren't that good, or if you happen to have monthly data limits.

And sometimes the bigger issue for some folks is losing saved game files, which almost always will get save to C drive. Not all games support cloud save sync. I manually backup my saves either on a game by game basis if I'm only focused on a couple games within a span of a few weeks or months. But for a majority of saved game file backups I use GameSaveManager to backup/restore them.

[L37]

Partition kind of solves the issue of windows reinstall.
As for potential drive failure... should backup anything important anyway (savegames included, probably). I mean it is super easy, install free version of veeam agent or something similar, set it to backup stuff daily to external HDD or NAS and that's it, no need to remember anything or do it manually. Not only helps on failures, but when you accidentally deleted something or done something else stupid.
More important reason to have separate physical drive for OS, IMO, is the fact that any large game update, for example, may overwhelm the SSD and slow stuff down to a crawl. It is highly annoying when you cannot use PC at all when something is updating. Separate small SSD for OS ensures this does not happen.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Partitioning isn't really user friendly for newbs though. And with the way Win10 likes to do things I wouldn't bother doing data/games partitions on a Win10 based os drive.

But yes, it is something folks new to PC, regardless of OS choice, should take the time to learn about.

With some of the questions people ask these days, those folks at least don't have tge worries we had growing up, using DOS, floppy disks, dial-up, etc.

Now you have google and youtube which can not only help with answers but also can even visually guide you through it all also.