How Much Storage Is Enough To You?

[Chicken Patty]

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

feels like everything does hahahaha. But it is what it is, I have been doing this hobby for a while and it's never been cheap. At times it's been better than now but never cheap per say. So when the time comes that I'm truly running low on space and I'm ready I guess I'll see what my options will be. I don't need all the space I mentioned I'd like to get, so I can also just replace my 2TB with a 4TB, and then use the 2TB to replace my 1TB. In my rig now I have a 2TB as my main OS drive, and a 1TB as a misc NVMe for games, or whatever else I want on it that can benefit from a little extra ummmpph I guess.

 

[ThrashZone]

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.

Hi,
Quarterly profits dictate prices
This is not exclusive either it applies to all hardware
Main issue is a lot of people can't play buyers market very well or even know what that is hehe

 

[A Computer Guy]

Ah, I have no idea but I guess that it does. Need to dig deeper.

This one says it does NOT depend on PCIe bifurcation. I'm assuming under that heat sink is the switch chip.

Amazon.com

 

[Ruru]

This one says it does NOT depend on PCIe bifurcation. I'm assuming under that heat sink is the switch chip.

Amazon.com

Ah, a bridge chip which splits the bus bandwith for two drives? Looks great and at least compatible

 

[A Computer Guy]

Ah, a bridge chip which splits the bus bandwith for two drives? Looks great and at least compatible

Yes, There is also this beast of a card that I have been contemplating that provides 2 NVMe, 10Gb LAN, and 2 USB-C. With the limited number of slots and lanes on AM4/AM5 it's a tempting part to acquire.
Sonnet McFiver PCIe Card

 

[Ruru]

Yes, There is also this beast of a card that I have been contemplating that provides 2 NVMe, 10Gb LAN, and 2 USB-C. With the limited number of slots and lanes on AM4/AM5 it's a tempting part to acquire.
Sonnet McFiver PCIe Card

On the other hand, you can get a high-end board with (at least most of) these features with that price. Though could be useful in workstation etc. usage when even the board's connectors aren't enough.

 

[DeanoVIP]

For my daily driver I'd say a bare minimum of 2TB but 4TB seems a nice sweet spot, for games, pictures, music and applications. For my Fileserver I'm pushing 14TB but could do with another 8TB to see me over the next few years.

 

[TxGrin]

Upgraded my Qnap TS-932PX by converting the 2.5 bays to 3.5 with Sata extension cables, Synology 8 bay was around $1200 with 10gbe nic card, going with 9 bay qnap this was only $650 with 2 10gbe ports and two 2.5 gbe ports included and gained 1 extra bay for half the price with great speeds. Hard drive cage was another $25 with fan.

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

2 months ago i moved.
Before, i didn't have a network connection at home, except a modem and router. It was a problem to setup everything.
Since i moved and i had the possibility to put cables in the wall, every room has 2 UTP Cables. I have 4 ports on my modem, 3 of them have a 5 port switch connected to them. Every room has his own switch. the 4th connector stays where the power comes in the house. In the future there will be a NAS connected there.

But now, when all computers find each other in the network, i started collecting everything from every PC i want to save, and move it to 1 PC. At this moment that PC has a 1TB Crucial MX500 SATA drive, where everything is gonna be saved. I have a Backup 2 and 3TB Drive, where are already backup at, but will be copied the files from the SSD too soon.

Music is about 75% of the data, personal files maybe 5-10% and the rest Retro Drivers, Programs and Games

 

[freeagent]

I am down to 3TB and am ok with it for now..

 

[Tomgang]

About a year ago, i answered this thread a lot more. Back then i had 50 TB of total storage capacity. Now a year later this has increased to 83 TB of total storage capacity, where 12 TB is dedicated to games alone. This storage is shared between the two pc´s i have in 1 case build. Never go down on storage. None of these SSD/HDD are in a nas or other palces out side of my pc. They are all either on the motherboards or mounted inside the same case where my two system are as well.

 

[outpt]

2 8tb
1 4tb
2 2tb nvme for main and game drives
The bigger drives are for cold storage, need one more as a master back up.

 

[jarablue]

I have a 1tb 990pro and a 2tb 990pro on my motherboards gen5 and gen4 slots. I would love a synology NAS device and fill it to the brim with huge platter drives. Thinking about doing that when the universe shines a light on me.

 

[iameatingjam]

Well I now have 22TB of ssd storage... no idea why. At least now I'm running out of places to put new drives unless I want to start dangling them from usb ports, and oh god I don't.

 

[Launcestonian]

Entirely depends on how big the games are I play, with vanilla Starfield at over 130GB atm - that is an indication of things to come...
Not one to have a ton of games on my drives, just the ones that interest me. So 2TB for that lot is ok for now.

 

[Jetster]

I have 16 Tb of usable space on a server (TrueNAS), it's half full with movies. I also have back up which is another 14 Tb +


So the question underestimates the outcome

 

[mesaprotector]

I never use all my storage. (Except when I was dual-booting on a 256 gig SSD lol.)

I currently have about ¾ of a TB of data. That includes a lot of pictures going back to at least 2017, a lot of music, a few games I could easily download again, and a ton of anime. Also all my system files, applications, and so on, backed up.

I'm not a quality snob (cannot tell MP3 from FLAC for my life, and even when I can tell I mostly don't care). I delete games as soon as I'm done playing them, and uninstall applications as soon as I don't need them. Keeping my PC in order is part of keeping my mind in order, and I guess my soul as well. My 3.1TB across three drives is already more than I need - don't know what I'd even do with 5, 10, or 20TB of space. I find storage setups fascinating, though - I know all the different forms of RAID, and love hearing about people's unique ways of organizing files.