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]

Origineel geplaatst door Rachel, The Promised End:

Origineel geplaatst door 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.

Mine's 7.5, and even when you manage to finally load into Windows, everything is slowed down.

https://prnt.sc/q43ur6

[Komrade]

Origineel geplaatst door M.a.g.e.s:

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

"can be faster". Nope, it's not "can". It DOES load faster, and by many multitudes, and the difference is noticible to 100% of users. Don't try to say an SSD isn't neccessary, because it is.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Win10 is a hog, running it off an ssd is pretty much required. If you say any hdd is fast enough then you never used an ssd, even an old ssd made for sata2 is still going to allow the OS to be fluid. No hdd will do this. As it's not about read and write alone, it's about IOPS. A hdd is very limited on multitasking, which is something the OS does all the time, an ssd was made to handle this well due to high IOPS


OS installed to ssd is a night/day kind of difference. It brings speed back to even old laptops, as long as they have sata2 or 3

[Lord Flashheart]

Origineel geplaatst door 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?

I had a single 1TB SSD. A Samsung 860 QVO 1TB. After a while it was getting full. I bought another one. I backed up my games onto an external Hard drvie. I then setup 2 x 1TB SSDs as a striped drive through windows. Then copied them back. So now I have a 2TB logical drive around twice as fast as the 1TB. It is fine for my needs. There is nothing important on the drive so in the event of a drive failure there is no important data loss.

[DaGabaGhoul]

It's starting to feel like there is never enough fast storage. I started with A m.2 250gb for os and a 2tb HDD. I recentley added 1tb Sata SSD. And just ordered another 2tb sata SSD. So is 1tb enough for a game yes. Is 1tb enough for a steam library, probably not anymore. It really depends on how many games you like installed at once. Or if you like to keep your games on an HDD and swap em to the SSD to play. Now adays their is never enough storage.