5 ms·
I know that big disks are useful for a lot of people/applications. However, I topped out at 500GB about 10 years ago. That gives me plenty of headroom. Since th
by dlevine 8y ago
I know that big disks are useful for a lot of people/applications. However, I topped out at 500GB about 10 years ago. That gives me plenty of headroom. Since then, I have gone from a 500GB HDD to a SSD, but my space usage hasn't really gone up. The largest disk I own is a 1TB disk in my Time Capsule (which I could probably stand to upgrade, but I don't feel like taking it apart).
I think this is probably because I stream everything, and don't download much content. Even most of my applications are web-based these days. Granted, I'm sure that a lot of storage in the cloud is required to service me...
- merb 8y agoyou also do not game a lot. if you look at https://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=9339&game=Red%20Dead%20Redemption%202 https://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=9339&game=R... you will see that you need 100gb for just that single game. I mean my own music library which is rather small has 250gb...
- craftyguy 8y agoI game a lot, but none of the games I play even approach half that size. not all games are bloated, disk space eating messes.
- merb 8y agoit actually depends. you can either have a game with extremly fast loading, which means that assets won't be compressed a lot or you can compress them and go for file size, you can even reduce the quality. it always depends on your target audience. but still modern games for pc/mac are around ~10gb per game which would limit your installed game base by a lot. (also working with docker (pc, mac not linux) or vms in general will quickly eat your 500gb hard disk)
- loeg 8y agoI have a 200 GB or so SSD in my gaming computer. Yeah, I basically just install one AAA game at a time.
- craftyguy 8y ago10GB is an order of magnitude less than what GP referenced.. I don't mind being limited to having tens of games installed on a 500GB drive.
- toast0 8y agoDepending on the storage and the compression, loading compressed assets and decompressing them in ram can often be faster than loading uncompressed assets.
- dlevine 8y agoI game a bit, but play mostly indie games that are a few GB or less.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI play games, and rarely get time to finish them. So I usually have a hard drive dedicated just to game installs. Then I have disk(s) for storage of code, pictures, ebooks, music, etc. My boot drive is usually 250 GB or 500 GB, but I use numerous TB drives. I had a lot of issues with >2 TB HDDs in terms of performance though before, and generally avoid them.
- rixrax 8y agoAs you say you stream your videos. Now imagine getting that shiny new 4k video camera and start storing raw footage even after you have edited it. Rough ballbark of 120Mbits/s ==> 15MB/s ==> 900MB/minute ==> 54GB/hour. This is why I keep adding more and more disks to my NAS.
- objektif 8y agoWhat type of NAS do you have? I am researching alternatives would appreciate your advice.
- twothumbsup 8y agoI have a Synology DS1618+ that I'm happy with. Just upgraded to it this year from a DS413j I'd been using since Jan 2012.
- ericd 8y agoSibling comment is dead, but I second their recommendation of the Synology 1618+. It's been excellent in my experience. Even better when paired with a 10GbE NIC.
- ipsum2 8y agoYou can vouch for dead comments to un-dead them (bring it back to life?). I've done it for the sibling comment (by twothumbsup).
- seattle_spring 8y agoNot everyone can do that. I can flag submissions but not comments, and I can't vouch for anything. No idea why. Maybe my posts get flagged more often than I realize.
- ericd 8y agoAh thanks, didn’t see a link, but I probably just wasn’t looking for it. Looks like they’re undead now :-)
- eatbitseveryday 8y agoJust from a camera perspective, RAW capture from digital cameras can eat up space over time. At ~60MiB per image on 24MP cameras and a usage rate of 2000 images each year, you consume ~120GiB of storage each year. Video and post-processing storage adds further. Cameras increase in resolution, better sensors, ...
- djsumdog 8y agoYea when I started shooting in RAW I became very thankful for these high capacity drives. It's still cheaper and easier just to deal with buying a pair of drives than using any type of online backup when talking about files at that size.
- baroffoos 8y agoModern video games are reaching 100GB in size per game. I have been waiting for bigger hard drives so I can store raw blueray rips which are about 50GB each.
- kalleboo 8y agoMy photo library is 400 GB alone. And I don't even own a camera, that's all photos taken with my phone! No RAW or anything fancy like that, the worst thing in there are short clips of highly-compressed 4K HEVC. And it's ever-growing as I have a kid, a second one on the way...