What is your storage set up?

[Kartexa]

I have a question for you people, how do you set up your storage for your PC? My current set up is my 256 GB SATA SSD OS drive from when I first built my PC, a 1 TB NVME SSD only for games, a 2 TB HDD for my local files, and a 10 TB NAS for all my other stuff. I feel like my setup is abnormal since I've seen most people use only a large SSD for the OS and games. Personally, even if I do upgrade, I'd still keep separate boot and game drives just to keep things organized.

[Carbonado]

I personally keep my my OS and any frequently visiting games on my 1tb nvme ssd, other games on a normal sata ssd, and the other files etc. on a hdd

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, Kartexa said:

I feel like my setup is abnormal

seems normal to me , it'd be abnormal if you were storing your games on a raid array of 5 1/2" floppies

[KangUsapEmenq]

I'd do the same as yours, to be honest. I rather to use separate boot drive and drive for applications if, from the budget, is possible.

 

I've got a 120 GB WD Green M.2 SATA SSD (and I'd be honest if I kind of regret to buy this one, rather to go for 240 GB one for the sake of space, for real) for boot drive and few critical apps and a Toshiba 1 TB HDD for most games and media. Got an external 1 TB drive with the same Toshiba HDD on an Orico USB 3.0 enclosure either.

 

Yet, I recently got my HDD nearly to death (well, bad sector, obviously) after nearly-constant use for three years (and it past warranty) and forced to not using it until I can replace it later, I'd hope to get a 512 GB SSD for games, and using my current 1 TB external drive for all of the media.

 

Fortunately, got the SSD (cheapo one WD Green but meh it's usable enough) as a boot drive so I can still use my laptop right now. Albeit, I'm getting bored without games for the last week.

[HotdropHeinz]

1 hour ago, Kartexa said:

how do you set up your storage for your PC?

I'm currently using a 120GB Samsung SSD for the OS and a 960GB Sandisk SSD for storage. All drives are only SATA but that's okay tbh.

Originally i had the 120GB Boot SSD with a 1TB HDD but later upgraded the 1TB to solid state aswell since i got annoyed of the HDDs noise.

The old HDD now serves as a backup drive in an external enclosure.

[Yea, i use windows, W]

2 x 2TB NVME SSD in Raid 0
5TB 7200RPM HDD


Backup drives

2 x 2TB NVME SSD
5TB 7200RPM HDD

Backup every midnight, so if my drives die, i still have my data  

[AzzaNezz]

Explain to a noob why would people use that many different ssds?

Is there difference between using 2-3 different ssds over just buying 1 large ssd and put everything on it?

[Kartexa]

10 hours ago, AzzaNezz said:

Explain to a noob why would people use that many different ssds?

Is there difference between using 2-3 different ssds over just buying 1 large ssd and put everything on it?

Compartmentalizing mostly. If I need to reinstall my OS, I just need to wipe the OS and not all my games with it.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

Laptop (daily driver):

OS (Win10) on 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD (Wanted it on 2TB M.2 NVMe but couldn't get seamless migration of an existing OS to work, not about to reinstall.)

Programs, games, data scattered on 2TB 2.5" SATA, 1TB & 2TB M.2 NVMe SSDs.

 

Desktop:

Win10 on 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD

Ubuntu Studio 20.04 on 256GB 2.5" SATA SSD

Misc data on nearly-full 8TB & 10TB 7200rpm 3.5" SATA HDDs.  (Have another 8TB & a 14TB waiting in the wings, plus equal share of HDD capacities for backups.)