My home desktop only has 500GB(!!) and before today it had a little more than 100GB left. I’ve been downloading BG3 last several hours and guess how much space is left😭
I’m not into gaming much and the only other large game that’s installed is WoW, and those two games occupy ~300GB.
That made me realize, for those who enjoy gaming, it must require a lot of storage to play AAA games, etc. How much storage do y’all have on your PC/consoles?
*edit: it doesn’t have to be for gaming only!
I run a gaming laptop. My OS drive is a 500gb NVMe. My gaming drive is a 1tb NVMe. And then I have a 5tb storage drive… for downloads.
“Downloads”… that’s what we’re calling it now
That’s a lot of porn
That is almost the same as my setup. I’ve got a 1TB SSD as a boot device, a 500 GB SSD for games and a 5TB disk for everything else.
29tb on my PC
24.5TB usable on primary NAS
24TB usable on my backup NAS
36TB usable on my off-site data center NAS
Found the data hoarder. Are you Selfhosting?
I have a full rack in a data center.
Everything I do is self hosted lol.
My total raw storage is somewhere in the range of 170tb
How do you have a rack in a data center? That’s not something you can just rent normally, right?
Yep, I’m just renting a rack.
If you’re interested look into colocation
Those are rooky numbers. /s
45TB used out of 77TB total on my NAS.
Granted, I only need to back up about 5 TB of that, so that does make my life easier. At this point, I’ll have to start building custom drive chassis if I want to keep expanding. There is always more to save…
Edit: LOL, saw your other post below where you say your full storage capabilities are in the 170TB+ range. I respect the power of your thuum!
Yep, I have quite a bit of storage lol
The primary NAS has 7x 6tb SAS HDDs
Backup has 4x 8tb shucked SATA HDDs
And the DC hosted one has 5x 12tb SATA Water panther drives. They were relabeled Seagate RMA drives.
Does it have to be for gaming?
Because my Plex server has 122TB of storage.
No, no it doesn’t only have to be for gaming! I know people on Lemmy are much more tech-oriented and it’s really interesting to hear how y’all are handling storage.
Msg I message you with noob Plex questions?
You can, don’t know if Sync receives messages yet, though.
That’s actually a difficult question to answer
On my main rig I have 3 TB of space, 1 of which is an M.2 the rest are SATA SSDs. But it has access to my NAS†
Then there’s the secondary rig that runs my 3D printing corner which has 1 TB of space and also has access to my NAS†
†My NAS is a bit special, it has about 44TB of space in RAIS Z2, this thing is connected to all of my devices.
I have plans to update my NAS to something less power hungry as it’s currently running on a 12 year old hunk of server hardware with dual CPUs and 192GB of RAM.
Edit: Spleling and slight clarification
From experience i can safely say you never have enough
Started with a 250gb hdd in a laptop Moved to a 1TB hdd PC, Added a 500GB SSD… I am still using both as extra space but i added 3 TB nvme
I also build franksteined server pc wich has about 12GB of hdd space (but only 8TB which i consider safe for important files)
It is never enough.
When i had that original 250gb it felt Much larger then all the space i have now.
Lmao. Also, it would’ve been better if your instance used a .btw domain instead.
Idk if those are available but yea, ive definitely thought about it xD
couldn’t you just have run lsblk?
The output is a little nice for the purpose of the meme imo using df, rather than lsblk
500 GB SSD as main boot and application drive
500 GB SSD as one game drive
2 TB SSD as second game drive (added after 500 GB one filled up)
1 TB HDD as bulk storage (had it for many years now)
1 TB HDD for photographs (also had for many years)
2 TB RAID array for video editing
8 TB external HDD for backup
So 7 TB internal, and 8 TB backup
Boot drive is 1TB. Currently 176GB free with 21 games installed (BG3 is definitely the largest lol) and all my other non-gaming stuff.
Also have a combined 30TB in external HDD’s (with about 1TB free) as my PC is also a Plex server, but that’s not game related (well cept roms lol).
Server is at about 50tb or so. Main PC is at about 25tb. I’m completely out of sata ports and if I add anything else anywhere, will have to either swap the hard drives or use a card to get more.
I have a 4TB NVMe and a 2TB NVMe for 6TB total.
As for my NAS, I have 160TB lol, but that’s not mainly for games.
Total is about 11TB:
1x 2TB SSD
1x 1TB SSD
2x 4TB HDD
Around 20,5 TB.
8 of them are only used for movies, series, and audio files.
I have
240g ssd
500g boot drive m.w
2tb barracuda
12 tb server drive (got it for abour 120)
Only around 2T of NVMe on my gaming PC.
My NAS has around 140T total. (128T spinning rust, the rest is NVMe).
Along with another 10T of NVMe in my proxmox cluster.
250GB boot SSD, 2TB internal HDD, 4TB external HDD. Fortunately I haven’t had to install any AAA games recently, because all of them are pretty much full.
