How much storage do you think is appropriate for a "gaming PC?"

[CommanderAlex]

OS with some games on it; 500GB - 1TB. 

HDD: Couple 1TB drives for games. 

[Jtalk4456]

ok i'd say there's 2 real questions before you can have an answer. 

1. Do you have a server/nas at home?
2. What's your use case? Tons of games, big games, office/school use, serious workstation/editing, etc
 

if 1 is Yes, you might not need much more than a 240 ssd and a 1 tb on the pc itself. This is what i consider minimum config. 
If you play all the big AA games and/or have big workloads like editing, bump that to 2 or 4 tb hdd based on needs

If you don't have any server, min config is pushing it , i'd go no smaller than 2 tb for the hdd and 500gb ssd if you can afford it

if you have big files or big/lots of games, i'd recommend a 1 tb ssd, you can get a 2.5 at a pretty good price these days. then depending on use case, add a 1,2, or 4 tb hdd for games/files/stuff

 

[Heliian]

The biggest and most nvme drives you can afford and fit in your setup. 

 

Otherwise, 256gb boot nvme and 2tb min HDD. 

[KiddoTech]

2TB for me

[FmPhenom]

2tb nvme drive for OS and older games that I run off of disc and 4gb ssd for steam , uPlay, epic games, Etc..... (UGH). 

 

 

[RoseLuck462]

The games I mostly play like League of Legends go my OS SSD which is 1tb.

 

Other games from my Steam library go on a 7200 RPM 2tb HDD.

 

It all really just matters on how much you want installed at the time.

[NickTheMajin]

I have 6TB of SSD in my PC. 20TB of external storage. I just bought a 14tb external hard drive to have a back up of my two other external hard drives and my PCs entire storage as well. 

 

Its outrageous how much prices on this stuff have fallen. The 12tb external hard drive was $180. 

[PlayStation 2]

This is both the smartass and the correct answer: however much you need. 

Personally, I wouldn't go with anything less than a 240-256GB SSD for your OS and essential games and a 2TB hard drive for anything else, at least if you're a heavier player or if you deal with a lot of emulation shit. 

 

Which is, to say, I want to get a 1TB NVMe boot drive and a 4TB hard drive soon.

[flibberdipper]

Naturally the 6th gen console has the same idea as me. Generally I'd consider the absolute bare minimum to be a 240-256GB SSD and a 1TB 7200RPM HDD (though 2TB drives aren't really much more expensive).

 

For me personally, my next PC will ultimately end up with 960GB MP510 and a 4TB 870 QVO. That should be more than enough for me, but I'd still have another 2.5" bay open for another 4TB QVO lmao

[Mark Kaine]

4-5TB, but realistically it's not enough, 10TB would be better, at least if you record everything with Nvidia Shadowplay like I do

[oJIMoBOBo]

I have ;

1TB SSD NVME

500GB SSD

2 x 1TB HDD

1 x 2TB HDD

1 x 8TB HDD

Then a NAS next to my pc with 4 x 8TB + a Google drive with 30~TBs in there atm

 

Im in the UK so data caps aren’t really a thing, reasonably though I could get by with 1TB SSD and maybe a 4TB HDD to store stuff

[fringie]

Depends on the person. For me personally, 1TB - enough space for your most played games, some additional games, all your normal storage stuff. I have a 2TB NVME in my rig, eventually i hit 1TB then i'll remove some games I don't play anymore.

[Dedayog]

21 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

500GB NVMe boot, 2-4TB HDD SSD storage.
 

Fixed it for ya

I'd say 500GB SSD boot, 2-4TB SSD storage.  NVMe or SATA doesn't matter for gamers.

 

I waffle between getting another drive for storage since I'm at 2TB and have to remove games at times, but then I think I don't play all of them anyway so removing them is just cleaning up.

 

[Monkey Dust]

I have a 1TB SSD for windows & games, and it's getting a bit tight. 3TB HDD for music and crap, which is nowhere near full, but I can't go back to gaming off an HDD. 

 

Will definitely go bigger on the SSD next time, whenever we can get PC parts again. Ideally a couple of 2TB NVMe drives, a gen 4 one for boot & games, with a cheap(er) one for everything else, for a SATA cableless build. But if PC part prices don't normalize I may have to abandon that plan.

 

 

[Dedayog]

4 minutes ago, Monkey Dust said:

I have a 1TB SSD for windows & games, and it's getting a bit tight. 3TB HDD for music and crap, which is nowhere near full, but I can't go back to gaming off an HDD. 

 

Will definitely go bigger on the SSD next time, whenever we can get PC parts again. Ideally a couple of 2TB NVMe drives, a gen 4 one for boot & games, with a cheap(er) one for everything else, for a SATA cableless build. But if PC part prices don't normalize I may have to abandon that plan.

 

 

Why Gen 4 for boot and games?

 

I'd like to know people's justification for buying.  I may just do a poll.

[Mister Woof]

6 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Why Gen 4 for boot and games?

 

I'd like to know people's justification for buying.  I may just do a poll.

Thought about getting a Sabrent Rocket for $144 but outside of doing large file transfer its not really worth much.

 

Hell, I barely notice a difference between my old Samsung 860 SATA drive vs. either of my NVMEs.

 

Sure, the NVMEs are much faster in the numbers that get advertised, but in real world scenarios it's not really much of a difference for normal every day stuff.

 

Unless you're doing content creation I don't feel PCIE4 makes much sense for the expense.

 

Even a big QLC SSD makes more sense for the price - that is I'd rather pay $175 for a 2TB QLC SSD like a Crucial BX500 or Samsung 860 QVO vs. $175 for a Sabrent Rocket Pro 1TB

 

 

 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Storage Devices

[Mister Woof]

Just now, LogicalDrm said:

-> Moved to Storage Devices

sorry my friend

[Mister Woof]

In somewhat related news:

 

 

[KiddoTech]

15 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

4-5TB, but realistically it's not enough, 10TB would be better, at least if you record everything with Nvidia Shadowplay like I do

Are you serious

[Monkey Dust]

18 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Why Gen 4 for boot and games?

 

I'd like to know people's justification for buying.  I may just do a poll.

Right now the extra speed isn't important. But I don't tend to swap out parts very often, in my 7 year old PC the only bit that I have swapped out is the graphics card, so I'd like to go gen 4 just in case.

 

The price gap has narrowed, and may narrow further by the time GPU & CPU availability allow me to build a new PC. Seems like a relatively small cost to insure myself against gen 4 SSDs becoming relevant for gaming, especially as I rarely upgrade.

[Cavalry Canuck]

6 x 500GB SSDs in RAID 5, about 2.3GB of usable space. I’ve filled about 1/3rd of it with games and photos, but my Library isn’t extensive.

[AzzaNezz]

well depends on you how many games you play and own.For instance i always had on my laptops and pcs 500 gb ssd.And it was enough for me since on laptop i play on league of legends and couple of smaller games.

No point going 2+tb if you are not gonna fill it with something,