How much total storage does your PC have?

[porina]

2.2TB of SSDs. I found my storage requirements to go down a LOT by uninstalling games I never play. Any large files (video etc.) gets moved to over storage locations on network.

 

I am looking forward to building a new gaming system to take me through the next 2+ years, and I think I'll aim to go for a single 2TB SSD in that.

[The Torrent]

3 minutes ago, porina said:

2.2TB of SSDs. I found my storage requirements to go down a LOT by uninstalling games I never play. Any large files (video etc.) gets moved to over storage locations on network.

 

I am looking forward to building a new gaming system to take me through the next 2+ years, and I think I'll aim to go for a single 2TB SSD in that.

be careful about filling up ssd's as they slow down drastically as they reach getting completely filled.

 

Also i would never have a single ssd drive, ssd's can die without you even knowing so always aim to get some sort of other storage medium even if its cloud storage just for backup of important files.

[porina]

15 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

be careful about filling up ssd's as they slow down drastically as they reach getting completely filled.

I currently have about 750GB free of the 2200GB or so total capacity. So I don't think a 2TB SSD will be any problem in that respect. Main reason for going single SSD next time is so I don't have to manually balance storage.

 

I would also add some of that capacity is Optane, so is not limited by the weaknesses of flash based storage.

 

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Also i would never have a single ssd drive, ssd's can die without you even knowing so always aim to get some sort of other storage medium even if its cloud storage just for backup of important files.

It is unclear if you're saying I shouldn't have a single SSD in a new system, which I'd disagree with. Anything more is unnecessary complication. Drives have got bigger/cheaper over time. The main reason I have multiple drives is that at the time of purchase, anything beyond 1TB was much more expensive per capacity. The oldest SSD I think is about 5 years old now.

 

If you meant you should have backups, that applies to any storage. I did mention I have other storage locations on my network, but didn't go into detail since this thread was implied about the main use PC.

[RejZoR]

2TB SSD (Samsung 850 Pro)

8TB HDD (Seagate Barracuda)

[Chiyawa]

For me:

 

- OS drive: 960GB Kingston A400 2.5 inch SATA SSD. Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04LTS resides in here.

- Data drive: 750GB Hitachi TravelStar 2.5inch SATA HDD (salvaged from old laptop). Most of my data is here, as well as backup of document, photo, music, etc... files.

- Game drive: 2TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5 inch SATA HDD. As the name suggest, it is where all my games are installed to.

- Video drive: 4TB Toshiba X300 desktop 3.5inch SATA HDD. As the name suggest, it is where I store all my video files, including camcorders, DSLR, and stream captures.

[Slayerking92]

its connected to the internet, so unlimited storage.

 

[PianoPlayer88Key]

Desktop, OS drives:

• Windows 10 = 1TB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe SSD
• Linux = 256GB Crucial M550 2.5" SATA SSD

Desktop, Data:

• 10TB HGST HDN721010ALE604 7200rpm 3.5" SATA HDD
• 8TB HGST HDN728080ALE604 7200rpm 3.5" SATA HDD

Laptop:

• Windows 10 = 1TB WD Blue 3D 2.5" SATA SSD
• 2TB Seagate Barracuda 120 2.5" SATA SSD
• 1TB Silicon Power P34A80 M.2 NVMe SSD
• 2TB Silicon Power P34A80 M.2 NVMe SSD

Backup:

• 10TB HGST HDN721010ALE604 7200rpm 3.5" SATA HDD (Data)
• 8TB HGST HDN728080ALE604 7200rpm 3.5" SATA HDD (Data, incl. backup from laptop)
• 2x 500GB Team Vulcan 2.5" SATA SSD (OS backups from desktop, had been using 256GB SSD as dual boot, before pilfering 970 Evo from laptop)

Misc, not installed:

• 1TB WD Blue 3D 2.5" SATA SSD (VirtualBox Linux VMs)
• 240GB Crucial BX300 2.5" SATA SSD (Windows 10, been using in Dad's old Dell D830 laptop occasionally.)
• 250GB Crucial BX200 M.2-2260 SATA SSD (Linux, had been Windows 10 boot drive in laptop)
• 1050GB Crucial MX300 2.5" SATA SSD
• 8TB HGST HDN728080ALE604 7200rpm 3.5" SATA HDD
• 8TB Toshiba N300 (forget the exact model) 3.5" 7200rpm SATA HDD
• 2x 14TB Toshiba MG07ACA14TE 7200rpm 3.5" SATA HDD
• 750GB WD WD7500AAKS 3.5" SATA HDD
• 80GB WD WD800BB 3.5" PATA HDD
• 2x 8.4GB IBM DTTA-350840 3.5" PATA HDD (1 dead)

Drives I recently got rid of (a couple weeks ago):

• 3.5" SATA HDD:
  • 3x 5TB HGST HDN726050ALE610
  • 3x 4TB HGST HDN726050ALE640
  • 2TB WD WD20EZRX
  • 2TB WD WD20EADS
  • 2x 1.5TB WD WD15EADS
  • 1TB WD WD10EADS
  • 750GB WD WD7501AALS
• 3.5" PATA HDD:
  • 250GB WD WD2500JB
  • 3x 40GB Maxtor 6E040L0
  • 2x 40GB IBM IC35L040
  • 2x 20.4GB Maxtor 32049H2
• 2.5" SATA:
  • 1050GB Crucial MX300 SSD
  • 2x 256GB Transcend TS256GSSD25S-M SSD
  • 2x 1TB HGST HTS541010A9E680
  • 1TB Toshiba MQ01ABD100
  • 2TB Samsung/Seagate ST2000LM003

 

Total current storage ~ 91.6344 TB

Storage before I got rid of the other drives (after I had purchased some recent acquisitions) ~ 134.4372 TB

I feel like I might have forgotten a drive or two, but am too lazy to recount right now.  (Doesn't help that I listed them by usage, instead of just by type and capacity.)