Total Steam library size

Is there a way to view how much hard drive space would be needed to install your entire Steam Library? I'm getting ready for a deployment to Afghanistan and I'm looking to purchase a new laptop and DL the entirety of my Steam library to it (I've been collecting through various sales they've had over the years). However, I don't know the size of my library and therefore don't know how much hard drive I need (or if I would need an external). Total Steam games right now is at 220, which a nice chunk being indie games and the like.

Any advice / help? Not sure if this is the place to put this but it does concern data storage.

Right click on the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps folder and look at diskspace usage. Steam never deletes redistributable installer, which can easily add up into hundreds of megabytes if not gigabytes of wasted space.

Well that's the thing, I don't have the whole thing installed on my desktop. I'm more or less saving them up. Right now I have 22 games installed that are all taking up a total of 123 GB. I could individually go to install each game and just add up the needed HD space, but that would take forever. Just wondering if there was an easier way of going about it.

Varies, I have about 150 games but alot of them are relatively new titles so my steamapps is about 900GB-1TB.

CeZemal said:

Well that's the thing, I don't have the whole thing installed on my desktop. I'm more or less saving them up. Right now I have 22 games installed that are all taking up a total of 123 GB. I could individually go to install each game and just add up the needed HD space, but that would take forever. Just wondering if there was an easier way of going about it.

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No there is no easy way. Too many different games to calculate, I would say roughly 2TB for 200 games but that's just me. Go with 2TB to be safe since you said a large portion are indies. Then again I have Skyrim mods too which take up a crap load. So if you have like 50 indie games, then those 50 could be like 5-10GB. But then GTA4 comes and throws 40GB in there, and then Skyrim + mods can be like 20GB, it all varies.

This is all very true. I did start to just highlight, hit enter, add on a calculator, then x out. It isn't actually taking that long, but with the 123GB already installed, from A to Elder scrolls oblivion, I need another 105 GB :/ Which admittedly isn't as much as I thought it was going to take up, since I'm also not calculating games that require internet connections (Such as DC Universe Online, Day of Defeat, things like that). If it all adds up to less than 1.5 TB I'll just get a laptop with internal storage to fit it all, and a small SSD for the OS.

Speaking of which, if I were get a laptop with say, 1.5 TB internal but no SSD, and I were to buy an SSD to throw in there and put my OS on, what would be the easiest way to go about switching windows to another disk drive without reformatting the big one and reinstalling windows out right, since I'm not sure the laptop will come with an actual windows disk?

So after adding up all my uninstalled games with games that are already installed, it all comes out to 562 GB needed. However there are games I've played / games already installed that require internet connections that wouldn't carry over, so I'm confident I can shave that to 510 GB. So a laptop with a 750 GB HDD would be fine if I get a SSD to use as an OS drive. I mean, gaming is all this laptop would be used for anyway. Alrighty then, kick ass.