How Much Storage Is Enough To You?

[Toothless]

Why did I never think of that? How many times I told my parents to leave a portion of their SSD empty! How much headache this could have saved me!


I'd be too lazy to bother with a file copy in the background. I'd just let it do its thing. If it takes X hours, it takes X hours, who cares?

But to be fair, this is why I'd never buy a cacheless QLC drive.

I have a 4TB with a dram cache and performance dropped hard when it filled after reinstalling games. A quick TRIM and everything was good again.

 

[Toothless]

Somebody lazy can't like to have a PC, and will buy a Paystation instead.

Don't you have a computer ?

They mean just starting the transfer and letting it do its own thing. Not whatever you're trying to do.

 

[Toothless]

Copy+Verify (verify source and then destination one at a time, idk why Syncback acts like this) took 4 hhours approx for 1.6Tb, from MX500.

Or, windows explorer. If you put all that effort on trimming the drive at times I'm sure you could've gone faster.

Terabits or terabytes? Tb or TB

 

[A Computer Guy]

I have a 4TB with a dram cache and performance dropped hard when it filled after reinstalling games. A quick TRIM and everything was good again.

I don't think trim would work in the case of just filling up a new drive. I tried that when I transferred my collection for Plex onto 1TB QVO (connected to motherboard SATA) and waited to start the TRIM until it bottlenecked on the transfer from a USB3 drive but it didn't have any effect. I just had to wait for the QVO cache to clear up a bit.

 

[AusWolf]

Somebody lazy can't like to have a PC, and will buy a Paystation instead.

Don't you have a computer ?

You completely missed my point.

They mean just starting the transfer and letting it do its own thing. Not whatever you're trying to do.

This!

A file transfer runs in the background, so I can play games, or do anything else in the meantime. No need to bother with pausing it just to reset the SLC cache. And when slow continuous transfers are a problem, a QLC drive isn't good for you.

 

[AusWolf]

How do i play a game when i copy from a disk to another ??

Hm, dunno, maybe you could try clicking on its desktop icon / Steam entry / etc.?

Unless you're copying from a HDD and your game is located on said HDD (or you have a single core CPU), then I see your problem.

 

[AusWolf]

But topic is about size, not speed so, what size should be my HDD ?

EDIT: we should erase our offtopic posts... i do, anyway i'm quoted, it's cleaner

Just a tip for the future: if you don't want an off-topic conversation, then don't start one.

I'm not gonna delete my posts.

 

[Toothless]

But topic is about size, not speed so, what size should be my HDD ?

EDIT: we should erase our offtopic posts... i do, anyway i'm quoted, it's cleaner

You just messed up and confused the thread going on with deleting posts. You're also asking questions that is for YOU to determine. We can't tell you what you need.

 

[metaldc4life]

I will have about 7TB in my laptop once i get a new board for it..

I develop games, play games, and projects to store them..

 

[Klemc]

I will have about 7TB in my laptop once i get a new board for it..

I develop games, play games, and projects to store them..

Get a QVO... cheap, and get another because QVO will be for backup only

 

[vigor]

A lot more! I need about 10000 yottabytes of storage to download the whole internet!

 

[Klemc]

A lot more! I need about 10000 yottabytes of storage to download the whole internet!

What's your plan ?

 

[Hardcore Games]

2TB M.2 products are almost dirt cheap

work on a new controller to support > 8TB SSD means no worries looking forward

 

[Bagerklestyne]

Current pc is lazy with 4.5TB in it, most of which is spinning rust.
The upgrade coming shortly is going to be 6TB of pure ssd (a 2TB boot and 4tb for files or a spillover for games)

I have 80TB in a nas and it's not really enough. Right now I think I'd be happy with about 120TB, but going forward I see those needs climbing incrementally each year (maybe 1-2TB)

It's not just my media, I am the archive point for the bulk of the families storage needs (pics, video, documents etc)

 

[freeagent]

I have 3TB of Nand installed right now.. its a bit tight. 8TB would probably be enough for all of my games and "stuff", as well as future preparedness.

 

[delshay]

I don't want you to do anything, relax.

All I'm saying is that I've currently got 20- something games installed, but I never play more than 2 or 3 at a time.

You may 20 or so games installed, but here some games can't be removed as they are always getting updates. Then you may have games that are awaiting DLC, these cant't be removed either.. Constantly deleting games will eat up write cycles of an SSD. This is why I recommend 4TB minimum as our games collection is getting larger. & it will continue to grow whether we like it or not. Personally I put part of the blame on free giveaway games.

 

[AusWolf]

You may 20 or so games installed, but here some games can't be removed as they are always getting updates. Then you may have games that are awaiting DLC, these cant't be removed either.. Constantly deleting games will eat up write cycles of an SSD. This is why I recommend 4TB minimum as our games collection is getting larger. & it will continue to grow whether we like it or not. Personally I put part of the blame on free giveaway games.

Why can't they be removed? Just click "uninstall", and install it again when you need it next time. Constantly patching and downloading DLCs eats up write cycles, too.

 

[CheapMeat]

If I had only one drive on my PC, probably a laptop, I'd put in that 8TB SSD, probably the Sabrent dive, although I know ridiculously expensive. I hate thinking about space and managing the data (not organizing, which I enjoy but just taking things off and on). I don't feel like I download that much random stuff though.

I don't think I'm a data hoarder, at least like the folks I've seen on Reddit. I have a bunch of hardware but right now run 3 computers. Storage wise on my NAS, I'm at 50TB and it doesn't feel like that much to me. I have data duplication on though. I don't even really have any umm linux iso's... it's so far mostly some of my steam library, my video editing projects and personal photos/videos. Later I want to get into even more content creation (make more 4K videos, make games, run some kind of AI LLM, etc).

 

[Shonk]

Did i win?

 

[Shrek]

I have a 2TB SSD as my main drive and a 2TB hybrid drive for the backup, but am hardly using any of the 2TB at the moment.

My Son is into games and I have him using two 2TB hybrid drives.

 

[freeagent]

Well, I am up to 5x 1TB NVMe drives, 2x 256GB SSDs, and a 1TB spinner.. its enough for now.. its plenty for me

 

[LabRat 891]

Did i win?

I thought I was 'doing good' with 4x gen4 M.2s (across CPU + Chipset 4.0x4 M.2s and 2x x1-lane adapters in the chipset 4.0x1 slots) and a couple SATA SSDs.
Crap. Now I gotta change my icons too!

Not that it matters much, but in my book: yes, you won (today).
(I'd love to see how all that is installed and cable-managed inside the system(s). Looks like those are all local drive, not network-attached)

 

[kapone32]

You can call me a hoarder or whatever but I have 22TB of NAND in my storage array and love it. Payday 2 taught me that you don't want to delete and uninstall a Game. With updates I am sure that Game is 200 GB. Before you blast me though remember the first word in PC. What is good for you does not mean it is good for me and that is fine.

 

[maxx2575]

Im a data hoarder, the more storage I have the more stuff I hoard and I love it

 

[gottistar]

Just rebuilt a new pc, it’s been 3 years since….the old pc had 1tb for my main drive C…and the D drive was 2tbs for game/larger files etc.. both were m2 Samsung 970.