My home desktop only has 500GB(!!) and before today it had a little more than 100GB left. I’ve been downloading BG3 last several hours and guess how much space is left😭
I’m not into gaming much and the only other large game that’s installed is WoW, and those two games occupy ~300GB.
That made me realize, for those who enjoy gaming, it must require a lot of storage to play AAA games, etc. How much storage do y’all have on your PC/consoles?
*edit: it doesn’t have to be for gaming only!
I run a gaming laptop. My OS drive is a 500gb NVMe. My gaming drive is a 1tb NVMe. And then I have a 5tb storage drive… for downloads.
29tb on my PC
24.5TB usable on primary NAS
24TB usable on my backup NAS
36TB usable on my off-site data center NAS
Those are rooky numbers. /s
45TB used out of 77TB total on my NAS.
Granted, I only need to back up about 5 TB of that, so that does make my life easier. At this point, I’ll have to start building custom drive chassis if I want to keep expanding. There is always more to save…
Edit: LOL, saw your other post below where you say your full storage capabilities are in the 170TB+ range. I respect the power of your thuum!
Yep, I have quite a bit of storage lol
The primary NAS has 7x 6tb SAS HDDs
Backup has 4x 8tb shucked SATA HDDs
And the DC hosted one has 5x 12tb SATA Water panther drives. They were relabeled Seagate RMA drives.
Does it have to be for gaming?
Because my Plex server has 122TB of storage.
No, no it doesn’t only have to be for gaming! I know people on Lemmy are much more tech-oriented and it’s really interesting to hear how y’all are handling storage.
Msg I message you with noob Plex questions?
You can, don’t know if Sync receives messages yet, though.
Around 20,5 TB.
8 of them are only used for movies, series, and audio files.
I have a 256GB “OS” SSD 1 TB SSD for games 2 TB HDD for longer term storage
My computer is pretty old. When I eventually upgrade I’ll do a 1TB nvme os and one for games with a 5TB hybrid storage I think.
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2 TB nvme for windows + apps + steam/games + cloud drive (google drive) + user data
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1 TB SSD for personal offline data / photos / torrent.
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I have an “everything in one” build that I also run my Plex server off of. Including the external hard drives I think I’ve got around 80tb, around 60tb is actually used. But that’s the result of years of building, I’d recommend looking for a cheap 8tb external hard drive for games storage
My desktop has roughly 350gb of a terabyte left after only a couple years. Definitely gonna have to delete a bunch of files in order to clear up space. That, and actually complete some of the games I started so I can uninstall them to save space.
Hell, I might even have to uninstall Portal 2 since it’s the biggest offender of all the games on my PC, if I recall correctly.
Edit:
Just looked it up and Portal 2 is only taking up 12.94 gb where as Cities: Skylines is taking up 16.87 gb but that’s not the end of it. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is taking up a massive 21.77 gb and Steam itself blows all of that out of the water, taking up 71.12 gb on my computer and is the largest program on it as well. Closet other non-game program on my computer takes up 70 gb less at 1.06 gb which is insane to me!
I have
240g ssd
500g boot drive m.w
2tb barracuda
12 tb server drive (got it for abour 120)
I think the faster your connection, the less you can get away with for drive space. At one point, I was living in a place where the absolute fastest available internet was 1.5 meg dsl and where my actual connection speed hovered around dialup levels. I had massive amounts of local storage because I didn’t want to download anything more than once, and nothing was more soul crushing than getting a game on dvd so I didn’t have to worry about downloading it, and then still have to wait while it downloaded gigs worth of patches. Buying a game meant days of downloading, which I’d have to let run while at work because literally nothing else could be happening while a download was occurring. I now have gigabit ethernet.
I moved completely over to a steam deck for pc gaming. I rarely even think about how long a game takes to download, even in the case of a game like BG3 (which is great, btw - it’s a shockingly legit successor to the BG franchise and this is going to be one of those games that people remember for a decade or more).
In any case, I bought a deck with 512G a few months ago, and grabbed a 1tb card for it. I haven’t downloaded my entire library onto it, much less any non-steam games, but I find that the ability to go from thinking about playing a game to playing it in about the time it takes to get and eat a sandwich vastly changes the equation. Non-AAA games download in minutes.
Anyway, upgrading your internet speed may not be something available to everyone, because many places still have crap infrastructure, and some ISPs still have data caps. Mine thankfully doesn’t because I ended up moving so much data downloading to my new deck on top of 4k video streaming that I would be blowing through it monthly.
If you can’t upgrade your speed, upgrade your storage. You can use cheaper external drives with physical platters and either store games on there that don’t throttle on low rate io, or at least store the install files for games that you can then move over to your ssd. Back in the day when a 40mb hdd was considered large, we used to write scripts that would compress and uncompress games on the fly. I think wing commander with the voice pack by itself took up most of my drive.
tl;dr Think about investing in one or a few tb of external storage.
I just recently moved to a rural-ish place and Internet is really slow here:'( I thought I could quickly download&install the game in an hour and play for few hours in a nice Sunday evening, but the universe told me no😭
Thank you, I’ll order 2TB SSD tomorrow. I also have never played BG before, but I heard so much praise and am so hyped to play it!!
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My desktop PC has 9.5 TB of storage installed, but that’s just for game data. All my data is on my NAS with a whopping 24 TB of redundant storage
On my regular desktop PC? 1.5TB spread between three drives, not using half of it. My NAS has 4TB and I’m using about 80% of it so will need to upgrade that at some point. For a supposed IT professional I really don’t use that much storage.
Probably another 2TB or so spread among the various servers and Raspberry Pis I have kicking around the place, but none of them are used for anything important.
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Never enough.
That said, if you can find a good deal on (mirco)SD cards, those can be a pretty neat solution to easily get some extra space for things you don’t mind swapping out.
People are far better off using external ssd than microSD which is more expensive per Tb and are vastly more expensive in TBW over their lifetimes as they lack the more capable controllers of SSDs.
For most purposes I do agree, but I’ve found it easier to have little container with a bunch of sd cards in it for storing anything like media you only need every once in a while, not something to run AAA games from. They can however relieve the stress your SSD has with such files ;)
my PC has less than 2TB spread accross multiple drives, SSDs and HDDs as well. I’m running a Pi as a server, with 1TB SSD in it. Also have a 4TB backup disk, which is currently installed in my main PC, but don’t really use it as an “active” storage.
but I just had a flashback to around 2000, when the whole family went to a PC shop to buy our first machine. It had a whopping 20GB HDD in it! we all was like “oh lord, this disk is HUGE! it’s impossible to fill up!”
needless to say, it wasn’t. sometime later my next machine had 80 gigs and I almost got dizzy on the thought how freaking much is that. spoiler alert: it wasn’t that big afterall 😅
