What Is a good storage amount for a gaming pc

[A Rare Endangered Spycrab]

I'm buying parts to build a pc for gaming and for storage i have a 500 gb ssd and 1 tb hdd. Should this be enough for storing large amounts of games and files?

[Creed1]

2 minutes ago, A Rare Endangered Spycrab said:

I'm buying parts to build a pc for gaming and for storage i have a 500 gb ssd and 1 tb hdd. Should this be enough for storing large amounts of games and files?

Plenty enough. You may even be able to downgrade the SSD to 250GB and then just get another 1tb hdd.

[tlink]

yea that'll be fine. by the time you'll run out of storage you can buy another 1gb hdd anyways.

[paps511]

SSD is good, HDD may be a bit small. 

 

I am a digital pack rat and have all my steam games (100+) on my HDD. That said I have about 1.5tb of data on a 2tb drive.

[EunSoo]

Just now, tlink said:

yea that'll be fine. by the time you'll run out of storage you can buy another 1gb hdd anyways.

Might need more than 1gb

[tlink]

Just now, SCGazelle said:

Might need more than 1gb

nah man all the ram we will ever need is 640kb so 1gb harddrive should be enough.

[Daveeede]

Are you planning to put your steam library on the SSD or mechanical hard drive? Either way I think your current setup would be adequate.

[Mira Yurizaki]

It really depends on how many games you have now and how many games on average you tend to accumulate

 

1.5TB total is plenty unless you tend to modern hoard AAA titles where they have 50GB+ downloads apiece.

[Drak3]

8 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

Store your game installation file in HDD. 1Tb is not enough trust me.

Just dont buy SSHD for storage.

And store your favorite game in SSD for a better performance and loading times.

I second the first part, and the third part if the SSD is larger than 250GB.

[Drak3]

Just now, Thread212 said:

He did have 500gb ssd.

I know, but I felt that I should specify that I only agree if the SSD is larger than a certain capacity.

[Drak3]

Just now, Thread212 said:

That is depends on how many favorite games u have.

Whether its CS GO or DOTA 2 or LOL or Rocket League.

I could be wrong but u wont install 4 favorite games and actually play them all at the same day right?

Unnecessary moving, downloading, and deleting is a hassle though.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Thread212 said:

I am not sure if that is unnecessary.

 

It'd just be faster to load off of a 7200RPM HDD. It's typically a few seconds of difference anyways.

[Drak3]

Just now, Thread212 said:

                                                                       WRONG. RIGHT

File managing to play a game off of an SSD EVERY SINGLE TIME, it's faster to just load off of the SSD.

 

250GB is not a lot of space in today's world.

[Drak3]

Just now, Thread212 said:

Alright lets not just debate one this.  

Because its not worth it. 

Although i store my games at my 256Gb ssd.

But well its optional.

Well then, on to the next post!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[imPixelTV]

yeah you'll be fine. if you plan on messing about with virtual machines get a 2TB HDD. they're relatively cheap. if you plan on downloading 3 billion copies of gta v (or games like that) get a 2tb hdd.

 

tldr: if you want vms or never delete stuff, get a 2tb hard drive later on. otherwise you're fine

[aberdie]

Some of these newer games are like 60+ GB. . .  1 TB is not enough for me.  I even have a small 250gb SSD for games I play the most.