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

Count von Schwalbe said:
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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oh im at 1g down. My patience is spent elsewhere though. I download games 1 time.
 
Solaris17 said:
oh im at 1g down. My patience is spent elsewhere though. I download games 1 time.
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Same here, but I just play something else while I wait. I usually play 2-3 games at once, as I like completing campaigns before starting something else. I just have a few others for when I am in a different mood.
 
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Ohh this is fun. :laugh:

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C and E = WDC PC SN520 250 GB, I guess it's a oem version of WD Blue?
D and F = Sandisk SSD Plus 480 GB.
G = Sandisk 200 GB micro SD card for backup.
Along with WD My Passport 4 TB for cold backup.

Yes I know you should keep your system drive free but I've been using this laptop like this for 2 years and never had any problem. Only got like 16 TB writes on my main SSD with 200 TBW endurance according to WD so yeah, gonna keep using it like this.:slap:
 
I still have a bit.. but not enough for all of my games.

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Yeah, I need a few more drives soon... here's my linux box:
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Rhein7 said:
Ohh this is fun. :laugh:

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C and E = WDC PC SN520 250 GB, I guess it's a oem version of WD Blue?
D and F = Sandisk SSD Plus 480 GB.
G = Sandisk 200 GB micro SD card for backup.
Along with WD My Passport 4 TB for cold backup.

Yes I know you should keep your system drive free but I've been using this laptop like this for 2 years and never had any problem. Only got like 16 TB writes on my main SSD with 200 TBW endurance according to WD so yeah, gonna keep using it like this.:slap:
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Come on, you filled up your drives with junk just to post this screenshot here admit it :laugh:
 
depends how many 500gb ssds I buy this month
 
Currently rocking 5 SSDs on my rig, have space for another to be readily installed. Storage is something I've "skimped" on because I don't really have very high storage requirements, practically all of my storage is used up exclusively by games. The drives in question are 2x WD Green SN350 480 GB NVMes, a Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB that I got new-old-stock from some guy a couple of years back, a Lexar NS100 256 GB that I had around for another build that didn't pan out and my trusty Intel 320 series 160 GB drive that I've owned since 2011 (it's been through every build I've had ever since and is still at 97% health!), at the height of the whole SSD lifespan topic on tech forums :D

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I have the drives where I keep more important things formatted with the ReFS file system, I can't say I've ever needed its advanced resilience features but since it is available for me, it's a nice-to-have. The only downside is that it always eats a bit of your drive's capacity, for example, my G:\ (the Intel drive) is completely empty, ReFS then takes a little over 2 GB for itself.
 
kapone32 said:
My sentiment exactly. You only need to download a 100GB Game once to know that you don't want to do that again.
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35Mbps internet here, so I moved to a 20TB NAS for everything that I don't want to download again.

Back in the old days I used to just fileshare internal drives on my main PC but with laptops, phone, tablet, other PCs in the house a NAS just made far more sense as an always-on, mapped network drive.
 
R0H1T said:
Come on, you filled up your drives with junk just to post this screenshot here admit it :laugh:
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Haha nope, that just how it is. At most I have 2-3 GB free space at the beginning of the month for Windows update then pause the update and use the laptop normally until next month. :p

Dr. Dro said:
Currently rocking 5 SSDs on my rig, have space for another to be readily installed. Storage is something I've "skimped" on because I don't really have very high storage requirements, practically all of my storage is used up exclusively by games. The drives in question are 2x WD Green SN350 480 GB NVMes, a Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB that I got new-old-stock from some guy a couple of years back, a Lexar NS100 256 GB that I had around for another build that didn't pan out and my trusty Intel 320 series 160 GB drive that I've owned since 2011 (it's been through every build I've had ever since and is still at 97% health!), at the height of the whole SSD lifespan topic on tech forums :D
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Man those WD Green SSDs are rather popular in my country eventhough their endurance are really on dumpster level of SSDs. 60 TBW for that 480 GB, just what in the world WD is thinking of smh... :roll:
 
Rhein7 said:
Ohh this is fun. :laugh:

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C and E = WDC PC SN520 250 GB, I guess it's a oem version of WD Blue?
D and F = Sandisk SSD Plus 480 GB.
G = Sandisk 200 GB micro SD card for backup.
Along with WD My Passport 4 TB for cold backup.

Yes I know you should keep your system drive free but I've been using this laptop like this for 2 years and never had any problem. Only got like 16 TB writes on my main SSD with 200 TBW endurance according to WD so yeah, gonna keep using it like this.:slap:
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Hmm seems photoshopped or paint(ed)...

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i say it with a pic i know im lazzy
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Sorry for the lack of screenshot, but I have about 9TB free, it used to be lower but when I setup my NAS about 3-4TB got moved to it. Although 3TB of capacity also got removed from my PC.

My total capacity is 3TB NAND and 14TB spindle.
2x3TB Red CMR
2x4TB Red CMR
1x 1TB 970 EVO
1x 1TB 980 PRO
1x 1TB 860 EVO
 
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C: HP ssd ex950 m.2 1tb (formatted 400gb)
D,E,F: Western Digital DC HC550 18tb
G: usb-flash 32gb

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C is a 256 GB Adata Spectrix s40g Nvme, I have only Windows on it and a few generic smaller software.

T is a 3 TB Toshiba P300 HDD with a few game that I start up very rarely so the loading times don't bother me that much + mainly movies and some old stuff I hoard from old smaller drives.
X is a fairly old 1TB WD Blue HDD with even older games and screenshots I keep from a few MMO/online games I used to play years ago. 'nostalgic/sentimental value'
J is a partition I don't even remember why I made long ago.:laugh:

M is a Kingston A2000 Nvme SSD I dedicated for all of my game launchers 'I have 6 launchers there' and the games I actively play or at least play every now and then.
I only keep a few games installed at all times on this drive 'Borderlands 3/Diablo 3/DOOM Eternal for examplel' rest I delete after I've finished my playthrough.
I don't mind re dling games if I have to/feel like playing them again, can just watch a movie and dl them back meanwhile.

Could delete some stuff but eh, its fine as it is + I'm lazy to bother or sort out my old drives.
O ye I actually have a 120 GB 4 years old WD green 2.5' Sata SSD that used to be my C drive before I bought this Spectrix but I can't be bothered to even plug the Sata cable in cause what I'm gonna do with a 120 GB drive anyway.:oops: 'its at ~70% health or so'

Also, I have zero backup of anything so that doesn't take up space either.
I know its not a good idea/careless but to be honest I have nothing too important on my PC, maybe the old screenshots of my MMO/online gaming years hold some personal value but rest is like whatever.
Maybe one day I will sort those out and backup at least those but that will take a long time to sort for sure. 'I took a lot of screens..'
 
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