How much Hard Drive space you have dedicated to games?

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I upgraded last week and now have 20.5 TB of space total. That isn't including my low capacity Operating System SSD.
Just picked up two HGST 6TB refurbs helium drives which are like endless pits for data.
I Have 2.5 TB of SSD space which I only reserve for slow loading games. Basically ran out of Sata ports with 8 drives I have 3 open nvme slots but really can't afford any of them right now. It became a problem with my Origin games and Steam games just started to take up too much space on the 3TB HHD so I always had to delete some on occasion and the biggest SSD I had a month go was a 500 gig.
 
I have some games on my 500GB SSD and the rest on a WD 4TB Black, which is also used for GP data.
 
Just around 600GB. I've been uninstalling games recently. More so after upgrading to gigabit internet, takes about 5 minutes to download most games now, no point having them installed.
 
I just did a full system wipe and reorganised myself a bit space wise, so now I have:

1x 512 GB NVMe SSD for OS, programs and MS/Bethnet games
1x 480 GB SSD for Orgin
1x 500 GB SSD for Battle.net games
1x 500 GB SSD for all other launchers/standalone games
1x 1TB SS for Steam
1x 1.5 TB HDD partition for more steam games or the other programs should the need arise.
1x 500 GB HDD partition for general purpose storage

Currently I have around 1.4 TB worth of games installed which hoarder as I am will grow pretty fast :p

I scrapped my 2x 2TB WD black raid 0 array and just use one of those now, at least now I can reboot my PC without hanging, the speed loss from dropping raid 0 I glady take for ease of use.
 
Just a little under 1TB of stuff installed right now, but I've been itching to pump up those numbers. Only have 2 Intel SATA ports left, though. The others are Marvell :cautious:.

Funny, considering I have a 6TB connected to my Xbox One and an 8TB for my PS4. But I'm not a hoarder on my PC; I uninstall things when I'm done playing them while I install everything on my consoles.
 
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1tb spread across three SSDs.

1 x 500Gb SSD for Steam

1x 256Gb for Steam overflow

1x 256Gb For Origin and any others.

I used to run a couple TB in a Raid just for games, but these days I like having less space for games. It makes me only have a few installed at any given time.

I have a bad habit of bouncing between games if I have to many installed.
 
I've been using a 2TB SSD for about 2 years now. I can't say it is dedicated to games, sometimes I do video editing on it as well, but mostly it is only games.
 
I only ever have one or two games installed, currently totalling around 40GB. All my Steam/DD games are backed up on external mechanical drives.
 
I have about 300GB of SSD space set aside for games. They seem to have come down in price recently. THinking about a TB :}
 
1TB SSD dedicated to games. About 3/4 full. Mostly wasted by stuff I haven't played in ages. Dedicated 256GB boot SSD. The machine is 100% only used for gaming.
 
240GB on SSD. I don't play many newer games that take up that much. Largest game I have installed is Witcher 3.
 
Airbrushkid said:
That's why I have 15 tb. Larger games and all me games and some space for future games.
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15 TB?! God, that would be a nightmare to re-install all that. I've had too many hard drives fail on me to install that much data.
 
Just for games:
1 x 6TB 7200 HDD
1 x 500GB SSD
1 x 250GB partition on my NVME

The 6TB use to be a 3TB but as it was getting full, I thought why bother uninstalling when I can just clone it on a bigger HDD. :D
 
In 18 years I have had 3 Maxtor drives die. You remember them? And 1 WD drive die. I love to have the ssd companies make 15tb, 20tb drives. But they would cost way to much. By the way it's not really 15tb. it's 14tb. I have a Intel 750 series nvme pcie sdd 1.2tb for just windows!
 
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