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Is 500 enough

one should be fine
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500 does the job for me but I dont have a big catalog and I delete after playing.

if you hoard games get a TB

I have a 1TB SSD and a 2TB HDD. The SSD is only games and is almost full and the HDD has 1.59TB left.

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I have a 1 TB SSD and a 2 TB external SSD, it's pretty cool would recommend

I'd recommend at least 1 TB of space these days. Call of Duty takes up 175 GB itself, and it's not the only big hitter.

HDDs are also fine for singleplayer gaming.

Reis posted...

I have a 1 TB SSD and a 2 TB external SSD, it's pretty cool would recommend

I'm curious how the external one works, it seems like it would be slow?

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Hexenherz posted...

I'd recommend at least 1 TB of space these days. Call of Duty takes up 175 GB itself, and it's not the only big hitter.

HDDs are also fine for singleplayer gaming.

I'm curious how the external one works, it seems like it would be slow?

HDDs are gonna feel like shit in any game with loading though. Just started using a SSD a few months and the difference is like night and day. Games legit load three times faster. No way I can go back

Depends on the game imo.

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If you have a decent sized gaming collection no way it's all gonna fit on 1 TB, so just get whatever you can afford and either put games you aren't currently playing on a HDD or uninstall.

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Steam library on a 4 tb HDD, OS on 500 gb Nvme drive and my old 500 gb SSD is holding all the Microsoft game pass games, work out just fine, booting up to Windows in 10 seconds is still amazing.

500 GB is just fine with a larger HDD, just have to move games and install locations.

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My SSD is only 250GB combined with a 1TB hard drive. I don't even bother to put the games on the SSD anymore because loading times on the hard drive really aren't that bad. But I don't play the newest graphics-heavy games that some people play.

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What I'm currently doing:

500 GB internal NVME SSD
4 TB external HDD (with USB 3.1) for most of the game library
For certain games I play most often, I keep them on the SSD

In my experience, honestly, very very few games have any performance gains on the SSD outside of loading times. Theoretically, some games should improve texture streaming on SSD but that hasn't been the case in anything I've played.


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SSD should really only be for OS and Photoshop.

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Turbam posted...

SSD should really only be for OS and Photoshop.

Or games with a lot of loading screens / long load times

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Anybody run WoW on a SSD? I know the running joke is WoW could run on a toaster, but I'm wondering it if would affect loading times

Ruvan22 posted...

Anybody run WoW on a SSD? I know the running joke is WoW could run on a toaster, but I'm wondering it if would affect loading times

WoW is 100% server and CPU limited at this point, especially on any gaming PC. There are integrated GPUs that can nearly max it.

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DarkRoast posted...

WoW is 100% server and CPU limited at this point, especially on any gaming PC. There are integrated GPUs that can nearly max it.

Yeah - the graphics aren't too bad on my laptop with the integrated GPU, just seem to hit really long loading screens.. thought they might be stored locally

4tb is enough for me for now.

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Usually the way I look at it is you want 1 hard drive just for the operating system, another for storage and optional for faster game load times. Some will say you don't need an drive just for the OS, but I find it just makes it cleaner and less chance you overload the drive and slow your system down.

240 gig SSD for the OS, 2 TB Mechanical for storage, and an optional 1 TB SSD for gaming.

Realforce posted...

4tb is enough for me for now.

It's absolutely bonkers to me how fast storage capacity has grown

Casual reminder that the Xbox 360 literally launched with a 20 GB hard drive in 2005. And there was even a 4 GB version shortly after. It's nuts to think about in retrospect.


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DarkRoast posted...

It's absolutely bonkers to me how fast storage capacity has grown

https://www.newegg.com/toshiba-mg08aca16te-16tb/p/1Z4-000B-00FR7

You can get 16 TB HDD for $385

=D

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

https://www.newegg.com/toshiba-mg08aca16te-16tb/p/1Z4-000B-00FR7

You can get 16 TB HDD for $385

=D

That's just silly.

Reminder that the entire US library of NES games - approximately 750 titles - is like 200 MB total.

That HDD would hold over 75,000 copies of the entire NES library.

It would hold 11,000 floppy disks


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1tb game should do fine if you're not planning on installing those many games at once...

Should I get an internal or external HDD?

DarkRoast posted...

That's just silly.

Reminder that the entire US library of NES games - approximately 750 titles - is like 200 MB total.

That HDD would hold over 75,000 copies of the entire NES library.

It would hold 11,000 floppy disks

But once you include the JP/EU originals, all the other consoles that have ever existed, the size of game libraries will grow.

Remember, there are plenty of other console libraries to collect.

I remember you loving MegaDrive / Genesis.

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