Storage options

[apaar123]

How many  games do you have and how much space do they take? And where do you store all of them if space is too large? Can we save games in cloud?

[WereCat]

I use 500GB (465GB in Windows) Samsung 850 EVO SSD for my games. I usually have at least 20 games installed at a time with still some free space left.

 

Currently, 25 games installed and 82GB free space left.

The largest currently installed games are Battlefield 1, GTA V, Witcher 3, DOOM and Rise of the Tomb Raider.

[grimreeper132]

my games I don't know hot much but everything combined I have

 

gaming PC-

Filled 1 240GB SSD

used 400GB of my 1TB HDD

used 60-70GB of my second 240GB SSD

 

laptop-

used 450GB out of 500GB HDD (I need a bigger HDD for this I know)

[Schakal_No1]

32 games worth 250GB on SSD

6 games worth 100GB on HDD

 

technically you could save games on NAS/cloud/whatever but that would increase your loading times drastically. Better get a big HDD and put your games there if you do not have enough space on SSD.

[grimreeper132]

as for storage for you, best option is on the PC you want to use the on. As for their size varies game to game, but most are under 10GB I believe

 

 or on a NAS, which you do fancy magic to make it let you install games on it (some games e.g. minecraft don't like you doing that so doing magic fixes it)

[LogicalDrm]

I used to have games which demand high storage speeds on SSD. And I will do that again with bigger SSD when I have more time for games again. Currently all games are on HDD.

 

Cloud for games isn't option yet. Its still too slow speeds, and your cloud storage would need to act like external drive.

[grimreeper132]

2 minutes ago, Schakal_No1 said:

32 games worth 250GB on SSD

6 games worth 100GB on HDD

 

technically you could save games on NAS/cloud/whatever but that would increase your loading times drastically. Better get a big HDD and put your games there if you do not have enough space on SSD.

the game doesn't always like that unless you do some fancy magic, (can't remember what said magic was though)

[jj9987]

Steam games take up 471 GB, Origin games 100 GB and other games (that are not from Steam or Origin) take up another 288 GB. I store all of them on my 6TB HDD.

 

Best option would be to get a storage device in your PC, either HDD or SSD, depending on how much games you want to store and how much is your budget.

[Schakal_No1]

5 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

the game doesn't always like that unless you do some fancy magic, (can't remember what said magic was though)

with steam you can just create a permanent mounted network drive and create a steam library on this, so not that fancy. This works but it is much slower than a hdd.

[grimreeper132]

3 minutes ago, Schakal_No1 said:

with steam you can just create a permanent mounted network drive and create a steam library on this, so not that fancy. This works but it is much slower than a hdd.

oh it is I agree, but as for the mounted drive that works for steam, but not for games like minecraft where you can't get it through steam, or a few other games I would imagine. you need to use ICSCI to fix that I think (which is one of the many things I keep on meaning to do but haven't)

[yathis]

46 minutes ago, apaar123 said:

How many  games do you have and how much space do they take? And where do you store all of them if space is too large? Can we save games in cloud?

Yes save games in the cloud

Steam games, 40 cheap games

hard drive

 

[Technous285]

Let's see... 1590.46GiB of games in Steam (91GB on a 500GB SSD, the rest on 4TB HDD), 183.22GiB of games in Origin (HDD) & 187.53GiB of games on BNet 2.0/Blizzard App (HDD). And hat's not including all the Minecraft stuff I have or the backups of vanilla games that are hard to mod at times.

[Mira Yurizaki]

My game library in total consumes about 4TB, if not more, in storage space. Though this is only counting all of my digital library. Most of that is stored on my external drive since I only have a 1TB SSD that serves the purpose of data and other apps.

[Underi]

27 steam games taking up 480GB of space on my HDD. Other games take like 252GB of space on my HDD. Then I have an external HDD with 300GB of ShadowPlay and OBS clips.

[Ryoku]

On 5/7/2017 at 2:14 AM, apaar123 said:

How many  games do you have and how much space do they take? And where do you store all of them if space is too large? Can we save games in cloud?

All my games are on a 1tb SSD, the size of the games range from 9GB to 56GB (56GB being Battlefield 1).

[Frankenburger]

480GB SSD and a 10TB Raid 1 array. I currently have over 700 games installed with 5.5TB free.

[ivan134]

I'll check when I get home, but gears of war 4 alone takes up over 100 GB

[leelaa14]

63 games installed. 99.7gb free of 931gb. Have a 240gb ssd for windows.

[typographie]

I'm not at home to see my specifics, but I think I usually have about 600–700 GB of games installed.

 

I have a 128 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD for games and applications, and a 2 TB HDD for storage purposes. I can and have filled the 1 TB drive with games before, but I never actually need to have that many installed at one time.