How Much Storage Is Enough To You?

wheresmycar · Mar 23, 2024

Chloefile said:
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I and J are HDDs, others are SSDs. I suppose I could upgrade those smaller SSDs next.

How many games have you got installed?

Toothless said:
Might expand for more storage on the server.

An organised Back-Upper with plenty of headroom! I LIKE!

I gotto get onboard with something like this opposed to having to maintain space on my 2 large capacity backup HDs and painstakingly having to cycle through various backup folders to see which crap needs to go.

Ruru · Mar 23, 2024

wheresmycar said:
How many games have you got installed?

About 300 games on from Steam, another ~50 from other launchers

A&P211 · Mar 23, 2024

Steevo said:
I just ordered 24TB of HGST Enterprise drives to upgrade my spinning 10TB. Refurbs, but stupid cheap at 89 bucks each. And absurdly low failure rates for just mass almost cold storage in RAID 1 for now.

Wow, how did you score that or where to buy it.

Toothless · Mar 23, 2024

wheresmycar said:
How many games have you got installed?

An organised Back-Upper with plenty of headroom! I LIKE!

I gotto get onboard with something like this opposed to having to maintain space on my 2 large capacity backup HDs and painstakingly having to cycle through various backup folders to see which crap needs to go.

ResilioSync is what I use for backup. @Nordic is who told me about it and it's been the best thing for backups that I've ever used. (Thank you again if you see this)

I have my phone pictures and videos automatically go into a folder on my main desktop (in sys spec). Then that entire document drive is mirrored over to my server via ethernet to a target drive. This all happens within about 10 seconds from when say, a picture is taken. (Depends on data speed for phone and file size)

This has saved me before as my wife's document drive crashed and I was able to recover every single file back to a replacement drive in a couple hours using my test bench. It's free too!

overclockedamd · Mar 29, 2024

I dont get the logic in having tons of games downloaded at once on a gaming pc. i just keep the couple I am currently playing and swap when im done with one and move on to the next. All my saves are in cloud storage so if I want to replay they are there. So 500gb is literally more than I need

gffermari · Mar 29, 2024

All my data, permanent and temporary are a less than 1TB.

But I have:
1TB for OS and software (CAD viewing software etc.)
2TB for games and temporary files (video, photo editing temps)
and ....4TB raid 1 (2x4TB) in my NAS for family photos and my wife's iPhone backup.

remixedcat · Mar 29, 2024

my god I need storage so badly... main rig has 4TB and I only have 250GB free! I only have 300GB free on this system and 150GB free on my other laptop...the rest are down to single digits!!

If food prices weren't so high I'd grab more drives and possibly get a cheap poweredge as a file server and put a storage oriented linux distro on it and grab a 2KW UPS for it

my music projects get really huge!! and each album itself is 2GB for just the wav files and artwork and metadata that I have to upload to distrubution...

Steevo · Mar 30, 2024

Drives showed up, let the beating begin. 230MBps I-O isn't bad, I remember IDE66 OR Ultra wide fast SCSI and being excited for 50Mbps

Still have 2TB of NVME 990 Pro to add, the screws on the heatsink are stupid tight, stripped out a T4 driver already and no damage to the screw. Maybe just leave the factory heatsink? But the one on the board is 4X bigger.

The second drive runs at 240MBps.

13 hours of bad sector tests to go.

A side note, these drives won't power up with the 3.3v present, so.. I cut the wire. I could have put tape, nail lacquer, something over pins 1-3 but I cut the wire. They work fine.

xu^ · Apr 8, 2024

currently got around 8tb in total,

4tb ssd,
2tb ssd,
1tb nvme,
1tb hdd,
512gb nvme

Mostly a gamer, rarely do much else on the PC other than the usual browsing/vid watching etc.
admittedly they are all less than half full atm, but with game sizes increasing all the time, im sure this space will come in handy.

As for games installed 105/191 on Steam, and then probably another 25/30 on other launchers installed

Hardcore Games · Apr 8, 2024

My 8 disk NAS has 12TB disks it and I am looking at maybe another box for storage. I use RAID 6 to be sure I can be curled up and not worry about a dead disk.

DaemonForce · Apr 11, 2024

Keullo-e said:
About 300 games on from Steam, another ~50 from other launchers

This has been bothering me for a while. I want to minimize on Steam storage allocation and can't seem to come up with anything reasonable below 2TB.
I currently have ~250 games in SteamApps chunked out to ~1.65TB. I have some fairly large games that have a few GB of update creep as well.
For the life of this volume from the disk that it's currently on, I'm not expecting to go over 300 games but I also don't have any clear idea what that looks like.

Does that look about right for your Steam? How do some of your largest games behave with storage? Do you have a lot of them or a lot of smaller games?

Last month I noticed my Epic Store disk is going to be MUCH bigger than Steam once decently populated, tipping well beyond the 2TB mark and it's only ~120 titles but grows much faster. It's getting a separate volume. Wat do?

Ruru · Apr 11, 2024

DaemonForce said:
This has been bothering me for a while. I want to minimize on Steam storage allocation and can't seem to come up with anything reasonable below 2TB.
I currently have ~250 games in SteamApps chunked out to ~1.65TB. I have some fairly large games that have a few GB of update creep as well.
For the life of this volume from the disk that it's currently on, I'm not expecting to go over 300 games but I also don't have any clear idea what that looks like.

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Does that look about right for your Steam? How do some of your largest games behave with storage? Do you have a lot of them or a lot of smaller games?

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Last month I noticed my Epic Store disk is going to be MUCH bigger than Steam once decently populated, tipping well beyond the 2TB mark and it's only ~120 titles but grows much faster. It's getting a separate volume. Wat do?

Pretty much both larger and smaller games. Steam games totally take ~4.6TB total on all on my drives. Epic folder takes 1.11TB, 300GB goes for EA folder and 200GB to Ubi.

Deleted member 239770 · Apr 11, 2024

14.5TB.
8TB HDD.
6.5TB in SSD.

2TB NVME OS drive.

The rest is OS testing (Linux) And game storage.

The HDD is for downloads, so game roms, videos, and a decent backup option.

FreedomEclipse · Apr 11, 2024

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TxGrin · Apr 11, 2024

kapone32 · Apr 11, 2024

TxGrin said:
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Colour me impressed. I thought I was good with 26.5 TB.

Toothless · Apr 11, 2024

TxGrin said:
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Got pics?

TxGrin · Apr 11, 2024

Toothless said:
Got pics? Snology Nas , Qnap 9 Bay and the 4 Bay external

Chicken Patty · Apr 12, 2024

So when I built my rig I thought for OS and games 2TB would be enough, keeping in mind I don't play many games. But honestly it's not. I am looking to in the near future get 2x 4TB's or maybe 3 4 TB NVMe's and not have to worry about that for time to come. I do have a 10TB storage drive, but I'd rather keep that for storage and not start installing games on it. It's a lot of money for what I want to do, but i don't mind once the time is right to do it. This is primarily a gaming PC.

DaemonForce · Apr 12, 2024

Chicken Patty said:
So when I built my rig I thought for OS and games 2TB would be enough, keeping in mind I don't play many games.

Yeah so that turned out to be the biggest lie of any of this infra. Our game libraries are under attack because of publishers outright ruining games, the sizes of our game libraries have ballooned from a modest 20GB....80GB....300GB...750GB....1.5TB....It's very clear that these amounts are just going to continue to climb with no end in sight. So why have a local volume that is prone to access corruption, sudden hackening, poor design planning and thermal degradation...The list goes on. I just chunk out a section of storage that connects from a dedicated high availability system that has minimal risk of destruction. When I run out of space, I disconnect the volume, chunk out the space a bit more and reconnect it. Extend the partition size, let Steam go BRRRRR.

Of course it's a lot of work to figure out the approx sizes of each library to maximize disk read position, contiguous r/w and so on. The writes and latency are going to be absolute garbage but when finished, the reads are absolutely 1:1. Would it be better on a system with more than 1 core and dual sata 3gbps? Sure. But nobody wants the significantly higher electric bill and space heater consequences associated with that. That 2 bay Synology setup looks really good rn fr.

If only it shipped with 10GbE SFP.

Toothless · Apr 12, 2024

Chicken Patty said:
So when I built my rig I thought for OS and games 2TB would be enough, keeping in mind I don't play many games. But honestly it's not. I am looking to in the near future get 2x 4TB's or maybe 3 4 TB NVMe's and not have to worry about that for time to come. I do have a 10TB storage drive, but I'd rather keep that for storage and not start installing games on it. It's a lot of money for what I want to do, but i don't mind once the time is right to do it. This is primarily a gaming PC.

I have a 4TB NVME for games and I noticed some things. Unless you have a network fast enough or you really need those two seconds of short loading time it's not really worth it over a SATA SSD or two HDDs in stripe. I did it more as a test for load times and wanted less cables in my case. (SATA power only for pump/fans)

If you can get one for cheap, all for it. Otherwise the benefits are a bit iffy.

Chicken Patty · Apr 12, 2024

Toothless said:
I have a 4TB NVME for games and I noticed some things. Unless you have a network fast enough or you really need those two seconds of short loading time it's not really worth it over a SATA SSD or two HDDs in stripe. I did it more as a test for load times and wanted less cables in my case. (SATA power only for pump/fans)

If you can get one for cheap, all for it. Otherwise the benefits are a bit iffy.

mainly waiting for prices to come down a bit, I don't care to have the fastest drives but atleast for me in the past I have noticed some decent improvement in load times, etc but that was years ago. I know mechanical HDD's have gotten pretty good. I also do it for less cables, etc. I am so glad I'm over the days where I have a bunch of SATA connectors all over the place.

SPDIF · Apr 12, 2024

Prices will not go down anymore at moment, i think it will take a long time before you see the cheap prices back as before.

Chicken Patty · Apr 12, 2024

SPDIF said:
Prices will not go down anymore at moment, i think it will take a long time before you see the cheap prices back as before.

good to know. don't need it right this second though, when the time comes I'll re-assess and see which direction I go.

SPDIF · Apr 12, 2024

Chicken Patty said:
good to know. don't need it right this second though, when the time comes I'll re-assess and see which direction I go.

Sadly they follow now the same strategy as with global oil supplies... :mad:

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