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!
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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.
“Downloads”… that’s what we’re calling it now
That is almost the same as my setup. I’ve got a 1TB SSD as a boot device, a 500 GB SSD for games and a 5TB disk for everything else.
That’s actually a difficult question to answer
On my main rig I have 3 TB of space, 1 of which is an M.2 the rest are SATA SSDs. But it has access to my NAS†
Then there’s the secondary rig that runs my 3D printing corner which has 1 TB of space and also has access to my NAS†
†My NAS is a bit special, it has about 44TB of space in RAIS Z2, this thing is connected to all of my devices.
I have plans to update my NAS to something less power hungry as it’s currently running on a 12 year old hunk of server hardware with dual CPUs and 192GB of RAM.
Edit: Spleling and slight clarification
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
Found the data hoarder. Are you Selfhosting?
I have a full rack in a data center.
Everything I do is self hosted lol.
My total raw storage is somewhere in the range of 170tb
How do you have a rack in a data center? That’s not something you can just rent normally, right?
Yep, I’m just renting a rack.
If you’re interested look into colocation
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.
From experience i can safely say you never have enough
Started with a 250gb hdd in a laptop Moved to a 1TB hdd PC, Added a 500GB SSD… I am still using both as extra space but i added 3 TB nvme
I also build franksteined server pc wich has about 12GB of hdd space (but only 8TB which i consider safe for important files)
It is never enough.
When i had that original 250gb it felt Much larger then all the space i have now.
500 GB SSD as main boot and application drive
500 GB SSD as one game drive
2 TB SSD as second game drive (added after 500 GB one filled up)
1 TB HDD as bulk storage (had it for many years now)
1 TB HDD for photographs (also had for many years)
2 TB RAID array for video editing
8 TB external HDD for backup
So 7 TB internal, and 8 TB backup
Lmao. Also, it would’ve been better if your instance used a .btw domain instead.
Idk if those are available but yea, ive definitely thought about it xD
couldn’t you just have run lsblk?
The output is a little nice for the purpose of the meme imo using df, rather than lsblk
240Gb, enough to play OpenTTD and Rollercoaster Tycoon
All you need
This is skewed as I do video editing, but I have a casual 112TB external raid array in addition to the 56TB in my machine. That’s not including the NAS, backups, or the other machines. Between all of my machines plus on and off sight backups, I’m probably just shy of a PB.
Holy fuck.
That’s a lot of porn
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.
Total is about 11TB:
1x 2TB SSD
1x 1TB SSD
2x 4TB HDD
I have a 4TB NVMe and a 2TB NVMe for 6TB total.
As for my NAS, I have 160TB lol, but that’s not mainly for games.
5 TB in total. Let’s break it down.
The only one I’m getting close to filling it the 1 TB SSD, but I’m always happy to look into upgrading.
250GB boot SSD, 2TB internal HDD, 4TB external HDD. Fortunately I haven’t had to install any AAA games recently, because all of them are pretty much full.
My PS5 has 3.5 TB. 1TB internal, plus 2TB NVME, plus 512GB external.
My PC has 1TB NVME for windows, a 2TB NVME game drive, a 512GB NVME I’m not really sure what for yet, a 4TB SATA SSD backups drive, and 2TBs SATA SSD for media/downloads/older games. I also have an external 8TB HDD fo backups. So 9.5 TB of SSDs and 8TB external.
SSD prices have dropped massively lately. You should get a 2TB NVME drive, which you can easily find for $100 or less.
And that last point is why I get so irritated when it costs $150 to upgrade from 256GB to 512GB on a phone.