why i have 8 tb of storage

[REALiNSaNgAMingGODPrODIgY]

uninstalling games is bad

[Raccoon.♡]

Don't worry, you will soon have 0 when GTA 6 comes out.

[kilésengati]

I'd use it to backup physical library. but that's okay, too.

[Max]

Origineel geplaatst door Locke:

Origineel geplaatst door @xMaxrayx:

It will kill your SSD they have have shorten lifespan than HHD ,so you you have the speed but you should be responsible.

The correct method is simpler
https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI

Uses new ntfs compression techniques introduced during Windows 10.

Knows to skip poorly compressed types and can actually speed up reads as cpus are so powerful now and the new algorithms are multithreaded.

Games are basically write once so it doesn't introduce much additional wear.

You can invoke through command line, but the gui is easier.

I see didn't know about it.

was interesting to read about them.

[secuda]

Origineel geplaatst door Crazy Tiger:

I only have 1TB. I'm actually glad I don't have 8T, my installed list would be way too large.

Same i have 1Tb and i am not sure if i would install most games i on my list.
At most i have a hdd on 4tb but its collecting dust.

[qb]

most of the games i play sit below 1gb so i am honestly lost even with 500gb of storage its like worse than trash hoarding which i also practice quite well. i think if anything games are like old furniture i am glad that i delete stuff time to time or i would get sick of the fumes.

[Dutchgamer1982]

in 2016

a 1tb ssd was 400 euro
an 512gb m.2 was also 400 euro
10tb traditional hd was also 400 euro

bigger did just not excist.
back than i decieded I prefered the 1TB.
512 was not enough
better double the data than 5 fold the speed.
however I saw no use to cut speeds down another 5 fold going for traditional HD
and while I could have multiple 1tb ssd that would become costly.
motherboard only had 1 m.2 slot back than so multiple m.2 was not possible.

today 400 euro gets you an 4tb m.2 or an 8tb ssd
and 20tb traditional hd do excist for that price too.

you can get 8th m.2 and 100tb ssd if you are prepared to pay the insane price

motherboards now have multiple m.2 slots
so to just spend 1200 euro on 8tb m.2. or 800 euro on two 4tb ones.. makes today much more sense.. than to have 8tb a few years ago.

the systems I designed for friends last years..

the "around 1000 euro ones" often had a dirtcheap 1tb m.2.

but for the sligly better systems i often added 4tb..

can't say I have designed them systems with 8tb...
usually I prefer for them to alocated that money to performance enhancers..

were I to buy a new pc now.. that makes most sense for most peope
it likely be :
7800X3D
nvidea 4070ti
64 gb (2x32gb) ram
4tb m.2.
-a good 1440p monitor

and if there is room for more money.. it likely goes into a better gpu long before I'd consider upping to 8tb.

for me personally as one who likes space.. I likely will pick 8tb.

[Kobs]

Now days you can have a good 4TB NVME for less than $200 for your games why bother

[EASY PETE]

I have 345567889987554321PB

[Daenoxiis]

I guess the better question is why you got 8 TB of games??
Mf, you know you not gonna play them all.

[Locke]

Origineel geplaatst door @xMaxrayx:

Origineel geplaatst door Locke:

The correct method is simpler
https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI

Uses new ntfs compression techniques introduced during Windows 10.

Knows to skip poorly compressed types and can actually speed up reads as cpus are so powerful now and the new algorithms are multithreaded.

Games are basically write once so it doesn't introduce much additional wear.

You can invoke through command line, but the gui is easier.

I see didn't know about it.

was interesting to read about them.

Yea there is basically no reason not to use it especially on indie and non triple A games.

[Acetyl]

Origineel geplaatst door @xMaxrayx:

Origineel geplaatst door REALiNSaNgAMingGODPrODIgY:

steam needs to add this, there is software already for this but game updates are needed sometimes.

It will kill your SSD they have have shorten lifespan than HHD ,so you you have the speed but you should be responsible.

It would be marked archived and made unlaunchable. Not intended to be decompressed on the fly either. This is for max compression.

LZMA2 can store literals fairly cheaply, is multithreaded, and some of the switches I used will group files by type so highly compressible data ends up in a solid block. The built in filesystem level schemes need to maintain performance and accomodate changes to file and directory content, and therefore can't do this nearly as well.

[Sigma957]

Well I have nearly 6TBs of SSDs in my PC so it's not astronomical. Outside of that I have about 11 external USB 3.0 mini platters varying between 1TB and 4TB. My RAW photos take up almost a 2TB drive alone. My puchased games (non-STEAM) use up about 4TB by themselves.

I also have older large platter typed external USB 2.0 and 3.0 drives (Buffalo/Seagate).