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!

  • @Joebroni@lemmy.world
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    182 years ago

    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.

  • Scott
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    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

      • Scott
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        42 years ago

        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

          • Scott
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            Yep, I’m just renting a rack.

            If you’re interested look into colocation

    • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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!

      • Scott
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        12 years ago

        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.

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    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

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    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.

    • edric
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      22 years ago

      Lmao. Also, it would’ve been better if your instance used a .btw domain instead.

      • promitheas
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        Idk if those are available but yea, ive definitely thought about it xD

      • promitheas
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        The output is a little nice for the purpose of the meme imo using df, rather than lsblk

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    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

  • GeekFTW
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    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).

  • @Zebov@feddit.ch
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    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.

  • @lud@lemm.ee
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    Around 20,5 TB.

    8 of them are only used for movies, series, and audio files.

  • This is skewed as I do video editing, but I have a casual 112TB external raid array in addition to the 56TB in my machine. That’s not including the NAS, backups, or the other machines. Between all of my machines plus on and off sight backups, I’m probably just shy of a PB.

  • TornadoRex
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    I have a 256GB “OS” SSD 1 TB SSD for games 2 TB HDD for longer term storage

    My computer is pretty old. When I eventually upgrade I’ll do a 1TB nvme os and one for games with a 5TB hybrid storage I think.