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How much internal free space do you have left on your main PC?

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System Name AlderLake
Processor Intel i7 12700K P-Cores @ 5Ghz
Motherboard Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master
Cooling Noctua NH-U12A 2 fans + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme + 5 case fans
Memory 32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 6000MT/s CL36
Video Card(s) MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio
Storage Samsung 980 Pro 1TB + 970 Evo 500GB + 850 Pro 512GB + 860 Evo 1TB x2
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Keyboard RAPOO E9270P Black 5GHz wireless
Software Windows 11
Benchmark Scores Cinebench R23 (Single Core) 1936 @ stock Cinebench R23 (Multi Core) 23006 @ stock
Drives:

C: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB
D: Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512GB
E:/F: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB
G: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB
H: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB

Note: 10% Unallocated partitions for over provisioning on each drive.

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Post what drives you have and post a screenshot!
 
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No idea, but I always try to leave 40-50% incase my data influx gets high or my needs change.
 
No idea, but I always try to leave 40-50% incase my data influx gets high or my needs change.

Post a screenshot of your main PC with the drives if you can.
 
Hi,
Not sure this is my main pc guess it is now seeing it's the only one I have access to atm but all are about the same

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My main PC at my current location.
C: Intel 335 Series 240GB SSD

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Here you go... and nearly a full bottle of Havana Rum, yum!
 

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Can't recall if the Samsung is a PM961 or SM961
 
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C:\ Samsung 980.
D:\ WD Blue 3D NAND.
E:\ Crucial MX500.
F:\ Kingston NV1.

Not shown (due to Windows obliviousness of anything not FAT/NTFS) but still "internal" atm:
- A set of partitions on the 980 for Fedora. I think they're about third full.
- A 250GB Samsung 850 Evo (ext4, solely for linux Steam game binaries). Est. 4/5th full.

Took me a while to downsize my active storage to just this much. :|
 
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C:, D: - ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB;
E:, F: - Toshiba P300 3TB;
G: - Just visiting, Sony Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-7200S. :D
 
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C and D are on a 1TB WD SN750. F is on a striped array of two 1TB Crucial MX500s

E, H, and J are slots on my USB memory card reader, and G is my LG WH16NS40.
 
I have no spare space left. All those free games giveaway has exhausted all my free space & I'm now at a point where I have to delete some of my backup free games.

2TB SSD Main Drive

Backup

1x 1TB SSD
3x 500GB & 1x 120GB
 
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My system info should be upto date but:

Samsung SSD 960 EVO - 250gb
Intel 760p - 512gb
Corsair MP400 - 8tb
 
You just had to get it after you size the size of Games (8 TB NAND).

I used to run it off my SAN (iSCSI) but I moved across the country and put all my stuff in a DC instead of stringing up another closet. So I had to get local storage, When I want to play something, I refuse to wait for it to download.
 
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The top one is a Intel Optane H1 (32GB Optane, not visible) ( F: )
The middle one is some sort of HDD (2.5 inch, using a laptop ATM) ( E: )

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The reason the HDD is so full? I got FlashPoint - the full version.

Edit: Apparently a drive letter in brackets becomes an emoji on a Tech forum (WTF?). Fixed.
 
I used to run it off my SAN (iSCSI) but I moved across the country and put all my stuff in a DC instead of stringing up another closet. So I had to get local storage, When I want to play something, I refuse to wait for it to download.
My sentiment exactly. You only need to download a 100GB Game once to know that you don't want to do that again.
 
My sentiment exactly. You only need to download a 100GB Game once to know that you don't want to do that again.
Only have experience with Epic, Steam, and Gameloop. Epic I downloaded borderlands 3 on (twice) and it didn't really take that long. PUBG took longer (a lot longer) even though it it is under 1/3 the size, because steam. I do have fast internet though.
 
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