How Many Hard drives in your PC

[Kovoet]

When building my new PC last week I stuck in 2 x SSD m."s and 3 x SSD's
My question is how many you guys put in. Only reason I'm asking is when building PC's sometimes I struggle with the cables and when you watch these guys for example on YouTube there cases look so neat but when looking closer most of the time they only install one Hard Drive so its easy to look good

 

[Ruru]

One 2TB drive in an USB3 enclosure as a media drive, all internal storage are SSDs. On my media PC, I have three (250GB/320GB/500GB) 2.5" 7200rpm drives for games which aren't that disk intensive that they would have need to be installed on SSDs.

edit: if you meant that how many disks in overall, I have 2x M.2 (one installed in the motherboard, the second with a M.2 -> PCIe x4 adapter in the chipset's 2.0 slot so it won't take bandwith from the GPU) and 3x SATA SSDs in my main PC + that external HDD. 3x SATA SSD + 3x SATA 2.5" HDD on my 2nd PC.

 

[TSiAhmat]

currently have 2 NVMEs (as much as my motherboard allows) each with 1 TB & 2 SATA SSDs with 4tb each.

There is metal panel in front of it so no one (but me) will know how it looks ^^"

 

[Ruru]

currently have 2 NVMEs (as much as my motherboard allows) each with 1 TB & 2 SATA SSDs with 4tb each.

There is metal panel in front of it so no one (but me) will know how it looks ^^"

PCIe adapters are your friends if you need moar M.2s

 

[zenlessyank]

1 - 4TB nvme inside and an external 14 TB spinner of rust.

 

[TSiAhmat]

PCIe adapters are your friends if you need moar M.2s

tbh I researched them a bit but these confused me a lot more than they should -> And that's why I got myself two satas instead of nvme (sadly sata cost about the same if not more)

 

[Ruru]

tbh I researched them a bit but these confused me a lot more than they should -> And that's why I got myself two satas instead of nvme (sadly sata cost about the same if not more)

I have an adapter similar to this, works like a charm https://www.ebay.com/itm/315620599680

 

[Shihab]

2 * m.2 + 2 * SATA SSDs.

Used to fill ~4 SATA ports back in the day (5 in older mobos). Consolidated my on-line storage a while back, but I'm not against having 4 (+4) SATA wires to wrangle once I can afford it again. I build computers to use, not to do photoshoots. Perks of being born before instagram, I guess...

 

[blinnbanir]

5 SATA and 5 NVME.

 

[Ruru]

2 * m.2 + 2 * SATA SSDs.

Used to fill ~4 SATA ports back in the day (5 in older mobos). Consolidated my on-line storage a while back, but I'm not against having 4 (+4) SATA wires to wrangle once I can afford it again. I build computers to use, not to do photoshoots. Perks of being born before instagram, I guess...

At least SATA cables are easy to manage when compared to PATA ribbons.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

My personal machines rarely have more than two, OS and storage (or backup in the case of the game server). My fileserver has four: OS, striped 2-disk service array and a mirror drive.

 

[Frick]

3 SATA HDD, 2 SATA ODD, 2 M2 nvme.

 

[cvaldes]

There are a number of computers in the house, not just one. Here's how they are currently configured in terms of internal storage.

• Mac mini M2 Pro (daily driver): 512GB storage, soldered onto motherboard
• Beelink #1 (daily driver PC): 1TB m.2, 2TB 2.5" SATA SSD
• Beelink #2 (home theater PC #1): 512GB m.2, 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD
• Mac mini 2018 (home theater PC #2): 1TB storage, soldered onto motherboard I think
• Primary gaming PC: 2TB m.2, 4TB m.2, 8TB 2.5" SATA SSD
• Secondary gaming PC: 1TB m.2, 4TB m.2, 4TB 2.5" SATA SSD

There hasn't been an internal HDD spinner in any of my machines since about 2012.

I only use SATA SSDs when I run out of m.2 slots. There are a couple of older rarely used systems that have two m.2 drives in each.

I use 3.5" HDDs externally for archiving purposes because they are still the cheapest drive medium in terms of gigabyte-per-dollar. My media library (photos, videos, music, movies, etc.) live on a collection of these HDDs since 4K video playback works fine over USB. I do not run any games off of HDDs, they are only used to archive games.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

**Looks at my specs**

Yes.

 

[bonehead123]

Well, in my personal mini-me box, I have 1x 8TB m.2 + 1x 4TB ssd (that's all it will take), and in my personal lappy, I have 1x 8TB m.2....

In my desktop workstation, I have 1x 2TB m.2+ 3x 8TB m.2 + 2x 4TB ssds.....

In my client builds, I only install what they ask for, which for the past few years has been multiple (2-4) large m.2's + a few large ssd's, and possibly some large spinners in an external case, RAID array, or NAS enclosure

 

[GreiverBlade]

my answer: YES

my honest answer, well ...

4 of them are in ext enclosure and you ask "in" ... soooo 13-4= 9?
(missing the second ext SN770M in 1tb)

i will replace most sub 1tb NVMe and 2.5" SSD as i go and can, asap

 

[freeagent]

Zero HDD, zero SATA, 5x NVMe

 

[BlaezaLite]

1 Gen 5 NVME 1TB boot drive
2 Gen 4 NVME 2TB game drives

 

[thesmokingman]

A lot...

 

[TheDeeGee]

No HDDs or SSDs anymore in my system, they're all NVME's.

Crucial P5 Plus 2TB (OS + Games)
Crucial P3 Plus 2TB (Misc Storage)
Crucial P3 Plus 4TB (AOMEI Backupper Recovery)

The 2,5 Inch HDDs and SSDs i used in the past are in USB Enclosures now for cold storage and data transfer.

I started using my first SSD in late 2009, it was a OCZ Vertex 120GB and set me back €360.

 

[johngalt]

3x Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB NVMe SSDs on my system board. I previously had 3x Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1 TB NVMe SSDs in there, and those were put into external cases and turned into external storage (via USB Type-C connection).

 

[Knight47]

No Hard drives. I have 6 m.2 in my main PC.

 

[Sithaer]

1 4TB HDD
1 1TB SATA SSD
2 NVMe '256 GB for the OS mainly and a 1TB one for the games I play the most'

I wouldn't mind getting rid of the HDD but that capacity is still too expensive for my taste/budget so its gonna stay for a while.

 

[Wirko]

Only reason I'm asking is when building PC's sometimes I struggle with the cables and when you watch these guys for example on YouTube there cases look so neat but when looking closer most of the time they only install one Hard Drive so its easy to look good

You probably mean anything SATA-connected here, not just hard disks.

It's totally possible to build a near-wireless PC these days, either a mini PC (only the fan cable will spoil the look) or something in a standard case with a slot-powered discrete GPU. (You just need to adjust your gaming aspirations to match the GPU, not the other way around.)

 

[Shihab]

At least SATA cables are easy to manage when compared to PATA ribbons.

PATA cables were always elegant to manage. The way they flowed in systematic and predictable manner, like waterfalls of silver!