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?

[Netsa]

Darn, I wish I knew that before. I guess I have to get a second drive.

[Komrade]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Netsa:

Darn, I wish I knew that before. I guess I have to get a second drive.

It's not required, just recommended and ideal.

[Netsa]

I know how to partition a drive, that isn't an issue, but from the sound of it, that wouldn't make a big difference?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

How much drive space is now being used on the current 1tb ssd?

Also helps to manage your os and data more closely. Windows OS will hog more and more space over time and before you know it, you're scratching your head wondering where 10-30gb went to...

Use Disk Cleanup about once a month, after all the Update Tuesday stuff is done and out of the way. Launch it via Run As Admin though. Everything in Disk Cleanup will be junk.

Keep an eye on System Restore, set it to around 10-20 gb don't leave it on 100%. As you see system being stable, like a month going by without any issues, but before next month's Update Tuesday comes around. Wipe all of system restore, then make your own system restore point with a unique name, just in case you need it.

Disable Fast Startup and Hibernation if you don't need the Hibernate feature. These are tied together so if you disable Fast startup, hibernate won't work anyways. But hibernate willeat up a good chunk of disk space. If you have 16gb. Installed ram, the hibernate temp file will take up approx 12gb of disk space on C drive. To rid tge drive of that, launch CMD via run as admin and type; POWERCFG -H OFF. Then press enter, then reboot.

[emoticorpse]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Netsa:

Darn, I wish I knew that before. I guess I have to get a second drive.

It isn't the second drive that makes it secure, it's the backup aspect. It could be the second drive that goes down before the first. you never know with hard drives.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

2tb is minimum if you have a lot and want to keep em installed

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Początkowo opublikowane przez M.a.g.e.s:

2tb is minimum if you have a lot and want to keep em installed

Well yes, but again this is also why I'm asking, what kind of budget were we talking about?

Well yes, regardless of number of drives, you need an external backup source if the data is important enough. And even more then one or two instances of any given backup helps too.

[L37]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Netsa:

Darn, I wish I knew that before. I guess I have to get a second drive.

You do not really have to, IMO.
You should simply be aware of what limitations single drive configuration has.
Using partitions, and may be a cheap usb hdd for backups mostly solves at least two of potential issues.
Performance considerations will always be there, but how much they actually affect you is another question. If it gets annoying you can buy second ssd later.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

A cheap usb hdd? Why is that "good"
Cheap externals are all junk, and most are 2.5 inch laptop hdds.

With externals, best bet is buy a quality sata 3.5 inch hdd that has a 5 year warranty. And your own external enclosure that supports 3.5 inch drives, with sata-iii 6gbps inside and usb 3.1 on the outside.

[L37]

A matter of preference i'd say.
Most (but not all, have to do some research before buying one) external 2.5 inch drives simply contain 2.5 inch laptop sata hdd. Those are not bad in terms of reliability (in fact they are better in some ways, like they tend to have free fall sensors and such, increasing chance of survival in case you drop it on the floor, even if it is running), they are just slow, which does not matter in this case.
Can always buy good HDD + enclosure separately if you prefer to. Nothing wrong with it.

Fun fact - i use 4 "seagate backup plus 5TB" usb hdd-s in my nas. I mean, i've bought them, disassembled the enclosures and pulled the hdd-s. They are absolutely the same as those sold separately and cost like 1.5x cheaper. Sure i have no warranty like this, but with such price difference i was willing to take a risk.

[emoticorpse]

Początkowo opublikowane przez L37:

A matter of preference i'd say.
Most (but not all, have to do some research before buying one) external 2.5 inch drives simply contain 2.5 inch laptop sata hdd. Those are not bad in terms of reliability (in fact they are better in some ways, like they tend to have free fall sensors and such, increasing chance of survival in case you drop it on the floor, even if it is running), they are just slow, which does not matter in this case.
Can always buy good HDD + enclosure separately if you prefer to. Nothing wrong with it.

Fun fact - i use 4 "seagate backup plus 5TB" usb hdd-s in my nas. I mean, i've bought them, disassembled the enclosures and pulled the hdd-s. They are absolutely the same as those sold separately and cost like 1.5x cheaper. Sure i have no warranty like this, but with such price difference i was willing to take a risk.

I've done this with a couple externals for the same exact reason. I find them just as reliable, although I stopped considering it, because I hate adding to the "throwaway society" state of things these days.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

4tb external with 4tb wd blue internal works really good, even run win10 off of it ssd not needed its not thatm uch faster

[Komrade]

Początkowo opublikowane przez M.a.g.e.s:

4tb external with 4tb wd blue internal works really good, even run win10 off of it ssd not needed its not thatm uch faster

Windows 10 isn't much faster on an SSD? Where are you pulling this one? It's incredibly sluggish on a HDD.

[Zireth]

Początkowo opublikowane przez M.a.g.e.s:

4tb external with 4tb wd blue internal works really good, even run win10 off of it ssd not needed its not thatm uch faster

I get a 15.1 second boot time according to the task manager. Your disc probably takes a whole minute.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

I had ssd, i had the wd hdd , in general use its not much difference really
ya k loading at first can be faster but not during using