Space taken by Win 10 & selection of games

[jeremymwilson]

Hi all, just about to pull the trigger on my build. I'm planning to get the samsung evo 500gb ssd and was wondering how much space the OS plus a handful of games take up. Let's say:

 

Windows 10 home

Doom 2016

Witcher 3

Civ 6

GTA 5

whatever a good PC racing game is plus room for a few more next year. 

 

Obviously at at some point I will need to get more storage and will add a second ssd but I haven't had a PC for 10 years and  have no idea how big 500gb really is. 

 

Please note, music/videos/photos will not be on the PC, nor will MS Office. Just games. 

 

Thanks

 

 

[Thorimus]

You should be good to start with, but you'll need to start looking at an expansion SSD/HDD pretty soon if you'll be expanding your library later, those starting games might just fill it up. 1TB SSDs tend to cost quite a bit, but if you have the cash it'll last you a while.

[Guest]

MS Win 10 ~ 25-30gb

Doom 16 ~50gb

GTA5 ~70gb

Witcher3 ~40gb

civ6 ~15gb

 

so around 250gb is enough or more

[jeremymwilson]

3 minutes ago, Thorimus said:

You should be good to start with, but you'll need to start looking at an expansion SSD/HDD pretty soon if you'll be expanding your library later, those starting games might just fill it up. 1TB SSDs tend to cost quite a bit, but if you have the cash it'll last you a while.

Yeah I keep going back and forth on the 1tb ssd

[jeremymwilson]

1 minute ago, dexxterlab97 said:

MS Win 10 ~ 25-30gb

Doom 16 ~50gb

GTA5 ~70gb

Witcher3 ~40gb

civ6 ~15gb

 

so around 250gb is enough or more

Great info, thanks

[Thorimus]

Just now, jeremymwilson said:

Yeah I keep going back and forth on the 1tb ssd

If you can afford it, it's going to serve you very well and for a long time. But if there are other things you'd rather spend cash on a 250GB SSD + 1TB HDD combo is cheaper and will perform just fine.

[jeremymwilson]

1 minute ago, Thorimus said:

If you can afford it, it's going to serve you very well and for a long time. But if there are other things you'd rather spend cash on a 250GB SSD + 1TB HDD combo is cheaper and will perform just fine.

You're right but I've had an iMac with an ssd and hdd for years and the only thing that bugs me about it (except for the lack of games, which is why I'm here?) is the sound of the hdd in an otherwise silent computer. Because of that I won't use an hdd again. 

[Enderman]

500GB should be enough for that.