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And i am wondering what do people even fill their storage with, and why do they need so much. In my case it is ~200-300 out of 1TB on 2 laptops, 37 out of 128gb

And i am wondering what do people even fill their storage with, and why do they need so much. In my case it is ~200-300 out of 1TB on 2 laptops, 37 out of 128gb on phone. And i don't even actively manage it.

msh 2mo ago
My photo library is around 700 gb.
throw2ih020 2mo ago
I have one single video game I play that takes up around 650GB, so I have a dedicated drive for it. And between 1 and 2 TB of movies, TV, and photos. Everything else is ephemeral/scratch space for whatever I'm working on. I used to be into amateur movie making and editing, and back then I needed many TB of space for the stuff I pulled off my cameras before it got edited down.
- RugnirViking 2mo ago
  What video game!? I've seen games that reach up to the already crazy number of 100gb, but I usually just don't install those, with few exceptions
  - shmeeed 2mo ago
    I don't know what it is for GP, but in my case it's Flight Simulator 2020 with over 700 GB. Not the standard installation though: it's community mods, mostly photogrammetric data for additional realism. There's a whole ecosystem around the base game that could easily fill several TB if you go all in.
  - throw2ih020 2mo ago
    One of the popular flight simulators. Earth terrain data takes up a huge amount of space.
efilife 2mo ago
I have 2TB filled and I need more. I make music so I need a lot of storage for my instruments and samples. This is measured in tens and often hundreds of gigabytes. I also play games. Games' sizes range wildly from 10 to 200 GBs. I also do gamedev. The textures get big and get duplicated between projects. Programming (npm modules for example), add to this personal data, media archives and 2TB is not enough
pjmlp 2mo ago
Photos, movies, MP3, SDKs for various kinds of systems, PDFs (and PS) of computing papers collected during the last 35 years, and naturally games.

msh 2mo ago

My photo library is around 700 gb.

throw2ih020 2mo ago

I have one single video game I play that takes up around 650GB, so I have a dedicated drive for it. And between 1 and 2 TB of movies, TV, and photos. Everything else is ephemeral/scratch space for whatever I'm working on. I used to be into amateur movie making and editing, and back then I needed many TB of space for the stuff I pulled off my cameras before it got edited down.

RugnirViking 2mo ago
What video game!? I've seen games that reach up to the already crazy number of 100gb, but I usually just don't install those, with few exceptions
- shmeeed 2mo ago
  I don't know what it is for GP, but in my case it's Flight Simulator 2020 with over 700 GB. Not the standard installation though: it's community mods, mostly photogrammetric data for additional realism. There's a whole ecosystem around the base game that could easily fill several TB if you go all in.
- throw2ih020 2mo ago
  One of the popular flight simulators. Earth terrain data takes up a huge amount of space.

efilife 2mo ago

I have 2TB filled and I need more. I make music so I need a lot of storage for my instruments and samples. This is measured in tens and often hundreds of gigabytes. I also play games. Games' sizes range wildly from 10 to 200 GBs. I also do gamedev. The textures get big and get duplicated between projects. Programming (npm modules for example), add to this personal data, media archives and 2TB is not enough

pjmlp 2mo ago

Photos, movies, MP3, SDKs for various kinds of systems, PDFs (and PS) of computing papers collected during the last 35 years, and naturally games.