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6TB or 8TB

Silotic
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Hey so I had money put aside for an HDD upgrade for potential m.2 drives.I planned on buying a barracuda pro 6tb but with the sales right now,i'm wondering whether or not I should get the 8tb instead.Do you guys think that 8TB of storage is overkill for gaming ? Games would include my steam library of 130+ games and a bunch of emulated games that also keep adding up.Note that I will of course keep on buying and downloading isos.

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I would go for the 8TB drive. It might seem like overkill now but in a year or so you might still run out of space.

I think right now with all my games I'm using about 4TB of space and that grows by a good amount every year.

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7 minutes ago, Silotic said:

Hey so I had money put aside for an HDD upgrade for potential m.2 drives.I planned on buying a barracuda pro 6tb but with the sales right now,i'm wondering whether or not I should get the 8tb instead.Do you guys think that 8TB of storage is overkill for gaming ? Games would include my steam library of 130+ games and a bunch of emulated games that also keep adding up.Note that I will of course keep on buying and downloading isos.

go 6tb, you can alwais add a new ssddownthe road xD

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depends can YOU use 8TB if the answer is no and the 6TB is cheaper get that, if the answer is yes get the 8TB

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The Lord of all Toasters (1920X 1080ti 32GB)

The Toasted Controller (i5 4670, R9 380, 24GB)

The Semi Portable Toastie machine (i7 3612QM (was an i3) intel HD 4000 16GB)'

Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB)

Pinoutbutter Sandwhich (raspberry pi 3 B)

The Portable Slice of Bread (N270, HAHAHA, 2GB)

Muffinator (C2D E6600, Geforce 8400, 6GB, 8X2TB HDD)

Toastbuster (WIP, should be cool)

loaf and let dough (A printer that doesn't print black ink)

The Cheese Toastie (C2D (of some sort), GTX 760, 3GB, win XP gaming machine)

The Toaster (C2D, intel HD, 4GB, 2X1TB NAS)

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windybread (4X E5470, intel HD, 32GB ECC) (use coming soon, maybe)

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