What SSD capacity is enough for the games you typically play?

[Toothless]

I just want 8TB so I don't have to worry about load times. Honestly fine with my 1TB since unlimited download and it never takes long.

 

[Ruru]

I have currently ~2TB of SSD storage and I have the most disk intensive games there. 7TB of HDDs and less intensive shit there.

 

[Nuke Dukem]

I have only played one game in the last month or so, but I feel that your metric for calculating drive size misses an important point. Smaller SSDs in the 256-512 GB size range are usually slower than their larger counterparts and are often more expensive per GB.

Yes, technically that's true, but would you feel any difference in practice?

But you called people like me hoarders which in social society is a negative term.

Not to anyone personally, I just described the act with a word I find funny, mostly because of the fact that the stuff you download from the internet is not physical (in the traditional sense, like a game in a jewel case) and can not be hoarded (again, in that sense)

I will expand on my thought as well. TWWH has a Immortal Empires Campaign. You need to have all 3 copies of the Game to get all the factions in the Game. Each Game is at least 100 GB with patches and updates. That is only 1 Game. Just today AMD uploaded a Video showing Life of PI running at 8K. Textures for 8K will probably add another 25GB to the current 80+ GB average for modern Games. These are not the days of Games being 4 to 8 GB anymore.

Yes, games are bigger now than 15 years ago. And yes, there are Jumbo-sized ones. I know.

 

[Lei]

I have currently ~2TB of SSD storage and I have the most disk intensive games there. 7TB of HDDs and less intensive shit there.

You have Western Digital Brown 7TB

mostly because of the fact that the stuff you download from the internet is not physical (in the traditional sense, like a game in a jewel case) and can not be hoarded (again, in that sense)

This non-physicality worries me at times. I bet Elon Musk will plug cameras on Mars and sells VR headsets to us. No one except cameraman will colonize the space.

 

[Frick]

I play a lot of games intermittently, sometimes months apart, or longer. If I removed everything I didn't touch for seven days the only games I would have installed would be ... none, I guess.

Not to anyone personally, I just described the act with a word I find funny, mostly because of the fact that the stuff you download from the internet is not physical (in the traditional sense, like a game in a jewel case) and can not be hoarded (again, in that sense)

One can absolutely be a digital hoarder.

 

[Tomgang]

I have 4 TB of SSD storage for games only for each of my systems or 8 TB in total.

Games drives consist of
Samsung 870 EVO 4 TB sata ssd
Crucial MX300 2 TB sata ssd stolen from old X58 system
Samsung PRO 980 2 TB NVMe ssd.

I can if it comes to it, ad more storage by using my two samsung pro 980 1 TB i for now use as OS and work drives. If it really becomes bad, i can ad HDD storage to game drive (i have a WD gold 14 TB and a red pro 16 TB hdd, so at least fast HDD by HDD standarts.), but that will be last thing i would do or want to do. Not since i use two WD velociraptor HDD in raid 1 for games, have i used HDD for game or os drive. So since 2011/2012 i have used SSD for games and OS. I was an early adoptor to SSD.

I have now on the good side of 2 TB of games installed on each system and we cant forget games will become bigger in the future. So what might seems like overkill now, will not be it In a few years.

 

[Solaris17]

Why do you keep every game installed? They're forever available on your profile, so you can always download something if you need it.

Because my wife is streaming right now.

Because I dont have fiber and 1GB on coax isnt really 1GB.

Because Data caps.

Because when I want to play a game I want to play it right now and not when its done downloading.

Easier to buy space and turn on auto patch. I buy and build things to make my life easier. Having all the things that I relax with ready when I want them too is literally why I support this hobby. I am certainly not going to do more work:

Download
patch
Initial config

So I can play the new CoD campaign only to complete it in 6 hours.

 

[evernessince]

Why do you keep every game installed? They're forever available on your profile, so you can always download something if you need it.

This isn't feasible when you play a lot of games. At that point you are essentially wasting time and bandwidth juggling games by uninstalling them and installing them. It's vastly easier to just leave them installed.

Forever available isn't entirely true either. They are available so long as you have internet, so long as that service is still alive, and so long as that service isn't down. I have a lot of GoG games where I have a copy of the game's installer and should I ever need it the ability to download off the internet as well.

If you often play a lot of different games ("finish and foget"), only look back 1 week (7 days) and calculate the total size of the games you played during that time. If you only play the same few games all the time, then include them.

I have a few hundred games that I replay on a fairly frequent basis so I assume I don't fall under the finish and forget category. I voted for 7.68 TB option.

 

[Ruru]

You have Western Digital Brown 7TB



This non-physicality worries me at times. I bet Elon Musk will plug cameras on Mars and sells VR headsets to us. No one except cameraman will colonize the space.

Haha 1TB Black as internal, 2TB Green and 4TB Seagate via USB3.

 

[Nuke Dukem]

I've also considered picking up a really large dedicated games HDD to just have everything installed. I could move whatever I was playing to SSD if needed, or just play from spinning rust for the less demanding games. That's totally a want and not a need though.

This is exactly what I would do of I needed to have everything at once and not pay a lot.

Duke probably doesn't know SSD dies by writing, not reading. Hoarding is permitted by design.

Name's Nuke. But what's more important - he knows, trust me, he knows. He's one of those people from a very particular breed that feel the need to disable the pagefile so that the SSD writes as little as possible. Feel free to roast him for that one

This isn't feasible when you play a lot of games. At that point you are essentially wasting time and bandwidth juggling games by uninstalling them and installing them. It's vastly easier to just leave them installed.

Well, of course, if you can humanly manage it, by all means; do not go and delete and reinstall every few days. That would be madness.

Forever available isn't entirely true either. They are available so long as you have internet, so long as that service is still alive, and so long as that service isn't down. I have a lot of GoG games where I have a copy of the game's installer and should I ever need it the ability to download off the internet as well.

Ah yes, the good old digital rent licence. I know. Long topic. I agree.

I have a few hundred games that I replay on a fairly frequent basis so I assume I don't fall under the finish and forget category. I voted for 7.68 TB option.

How do you find time for a few hundred?

 

[Lei]

Feel free to roast him for that one

I never felt offended by being addressed as a hoarder. I think it's sounds very rodent friendly.

 

[Deleted member 185158]

My supervisor tells me she doesn't play games. then she sneaks into her iPhone and plays 羊了个羊



She tells me I should play it too. To which I respond: I bought 3090 to play this game? Did you buy an iPhone to play this?!View attachment 278980

Benchmarks.
Using 120GB Patriot Torqx happens to be plenty.

My kid games, but the question was not directed towards our other family members unfortunately.
But if so,
BeamNGDrive takes many many GB because all the Fk'n mods the kid DL's and installs.
Double the capacity because he doesn't clear the DL folder XD

 

[Nuke Dukem]

Guys, I need to clear this, because some of you may have misunderstood the context: when I asked about the need to have every game installed, I was only answering a post about the Epic Games Store (that's where you get the weekly free game, right?), not speaking in broad terms, although it would still be valid to some extent.
I meant it in a sense of "Do you like every new free game enough to the point you feel the need to keep every game on tap?"

 

[Yukikaze]

All the games I typically play AND the OS usually fits into a $15 128GB NVMe SSD. I don't really play games that are huge in size and I don't play many games at the same time. 1-3 is the most I have installed, and only one is likely to be on the order of a few 10s of GB.

 

[AnotherReader]

Yes, technically that's true, but would you feel any difference in practice?

In practice, I'm unlikely to feel the difference. In fact, an average user wouldn't be able to tell if they had a SATA or NVMe SSD. Still, it rubs me the wrong way to pay only slightly less for slower and less capacious storage.

 

[bonehead123]

"Gimme moar or gimme death"

"Size DOES matta"

"Speed killz, but space saves"

"Bigger is ALWAYS betta"

"Betta to have it & not needz it, rather than needz it & not have it"

Shall I continue ? hehehe

 

[evernessince]

How do you find time for a few hundred?

Not spending too much time on any one game and frequently rotating what I play. I think the last game I played for over a 2 hour period in a single sitting was The Witcher 3. I typically play each game in my Library at the very least once every 6 months. If not then I delete it. No point in keeping a game I'm not going to replay on disk.

 

[A&P211]

I hoard all of my steam, epic store games on 3 SSDs drives on my laptop. I have 3 8tb SSD drives, so I can store everything without having to download again. The Microsoft Flight Simulator uses up about 1.5tb of storage, it has lots of downloaded map areas and planes.

 

[wheresmycar]

1TB for me... currently ~800mb. I don't tend to install too many titles... the ones i do tend to be enough to cause an addictive shit storm at home

 

[mechtech]

1 drive OS
1 drive Games (2TB and 1.2TB used) and about 20 ish games installed. Problably only play about 5 or so of those now though.
1 drive backup/storage

500GB used to be lots, but with games using uncompressed audio, 4k textures, etc. etc. some are easily blowing past 100GB a game!!!

 

[A&P211]

1 drive OS
1 drive Games (2TB and 1.2TB used) and about 20 ish games installed. Problably only play about 5 or so of those now though.
1 drive backup/storage

500GB used to be lots, but with games using uncompressed audio, 4k textures, etc. etc. some are easily blowing past 100GB a game!!!

I used to play lots of war thunder when it was around 55gb, now its sits at 102gb, installed.

 

[sam_86314]

Let's see...

I'm the kind of person who will play a small selection of games for a while and then go through a rotating list.

I have a total of 4TB of storage on my PC (two 1TB NVMe boot drives for Windows and Linux and two 1TB SATA SSDs in RAID0 for extra storage for Windows). My Windows boot drive has 490GB free, and my RAIDed drives have 650GB free.

The current main games I'm playing right now are the Saints Row reboot (50GB, and yeah, I know), Breath of the Wild (13GB), RuneScape (10GB), heavily modded Minecraft (1GB), and two other "games" that total about 100GB because mods.

Some of the games in my rotation are modded Skyrim (30GB), Dragon's Dogma (20GB), Cyberpunk 2077 (65GB), and Saints Row 2 (15GB).

I also hoard a lot of my game stuff on my server because I live in the land of data caps and generally shitty internet. My server has 19TB of storage, and my game archive on my server is currently 1.5TB (compressed with some duplicates probably) in size. All of the aforementioned games are in that archive, among others.

So my current selection of games takes up about 174GB, and the other major ones in my rotation total 130GB.

 

[LFaWolf]

I voted 4TB, because after my last Steam Winter sales shopping spree I am up to 1.5TB just with the Steam games. I am currently looking to get a 4TB drive.

1. I don't understand why it needs to be confined to 7 days. I work, so I can only sneak in a few hours of gaming on Friday night or Saturday night, and I typically play just 1 game a week. Yes, I read the first post. If I am into installing/uninstalling/installing/uninstalling/installing/uninstalling games, I can live with a small 250GB drive, because I only play 1 game in the last 7 days.
2. I don't understand why I need to download the games again, if I ever so incline to play that game again for whatever reason, because I have uninstalled it to save space. My internet download speed is around 100 Mbps, so downloading 20GB of a game is going to take hours. Time is more important to me.
3. 4TB SATA SSDs are cheap. 4TB SATA hard drives are even cheaper.
4. My EPIC games and my EA games easily push my total need to over 2TB, but I have them on separate drives.
5. If space is a concern, get a large hard drive. Game loading will take a small hit, but it is better than installing/uninstalling games.

 

[johnspack]

512 is more than enough for older games. Vid cards are too expensive to buy new games.
Don't need the storage for old games.

 

[caroline!]

0 Mb.

Cause I hasn't a single game installed ATM.

A call for you sir.

0MB too because I use Linux, a small price to pay for salvation. Well, there's always Tux Racer... *sigh*