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[Mark Kamill]

It doesn't have to be shooters, a lot of AAA titles from 2005-2009 all could easily hit that mark, and a lot of them are WRPGs, racing games, and even strategy games. 100 games with each hitting 20gigs is an easy thing to do without keeping things in check.

 

[Cordelia]

You guys obviously don't pirate anything lol. TV shows take up a ton of space!

 

[Mark Kamill]

Oh I know the joys of space saving for pirating, but it was the topic at hand I was answering to. I have like what, 3 external drives at a terabyte each?

 

[Aeroblast]

Piracy is illegal, which means I'm not going to be pirating anything anytime soon. Even if it's hard to actually be caught, I'm not risking getting caught by my university.

 

[Kanzler]

It doesn't have to be shooters, a lot of AAA titles from 2005-2009 all could easily hit that mark, and a lot of them are WRPGs, racing games, and even strategy games. 100 games with each hitting 20gigs is an easy thing to do without keeping things in check.

Could you keep your mind on 100 games at a time? I'm a person who tackles gaming one at a time as projects - in that I'll play CoD: Ghosts one week, and complete Borderlands the two weeks after that, and then run through Tales of Phantasia over the course of the following month. Of course, there are games I play constitutively like the Counterstrikes and HoMM3. In any case, I only have attention for one or two blockbusters at a given time, as well as the few I play on the side.

You guys obviously don't pirate anything lol. TV shows take up a ton of space!

And I don't watch TV. Games consume enough time by themselves ;;

 

[Tsutarja]

Backups more than anything are what take up most of the space on my 1TB external hard drive right now..

 

[Starry Windy]

Backups more than anything are what take up most of the space on my 1TB external hard drive right now..

Same with me as well, even though mine's not just backup from the PC's data, I'm storing the files that I used when I'm editing videos too that it fills much of my external hard drive.

 

[Somniac]

With internet speeds increasing, and the availability of "unlimited" downloads, it means people have access to a lot more data. People can easily download huge amounts of movies, songs, tv shows and such overnight.

The big rise in pirating sites has aided this as well, as all these large downloads are stored in one spot.

(For me, I have 600-800GB in Steam games alone. Not sure how, exactly, but games like TF2 take up about 10-12GB I think?)

I was curious so I had to check;
Skyrim: 56.4GB
Oblivion: 35.9GB
Fallout3: 28.8GB
Fallout NV: 26.1GB

It occurs to me that I may download a few too many mods.

You guys obviously don't pirate anything lol. TV shows take up a ton of space!

Naturally, I'm a well behaved adult woman and as such I would never pirate anything.
Music: 213.1GB
Movies: 180.0GB
Pictures: 21GB
TV: 71.3GB


Perhaps I'll buy myself a new hard drive for Christmas.

 

[Mark Kamill]

Could you keep your mind on 100 games at a time? I'm a person who tackles gaming one at a time as projects - in that I'll play CoD: Ghosts one week, and complete Borderlands the two weeks after that, and then run through Tales of Phantasia over the course of the following month. Of course, there are games I play constitutively like the Counterstrikes and HoMM3. In any case, I only have attention for one or two blockbusters at a given time, as well as the few I play on the side.



And I don't watch TV. Games consume enough time by themselves ;;

It doesn't have to do with keeping 100 games on my mind as much as it has to do with steam sales. Its a bottomless pit that thing.

 

[Tsutarja]

I can't believe that I'm paranoid enough on running low on hard drive space to be honest and I don't really even pirate content at all..

 

[Hiatus]

I don't really pirate either, to be honest. Well, at least not anymore. Last time I've done it was about six years ago, I think, while I was trying to get a hold of some anime episodes. xD"

 

[Aeroblast]

I can't believe that I'm paranoid enough on running low on hard drive space to be honest and I don't really even pirate content at all..

How much space do you have on your HDD? I have a 240 GB SSD but I'm not in danger of running out of space anytime soon.

 

[Kanzler]

I will consider getting an SSD when ~300GB hits an affordable $150. It seems like a decent amount of space for all my applications, recent & storage-speed-intensive games. Everything else can go on a TB drive. Right now 240GB is around $200 for a budget one right? It's just 60-100GB too small for my liking XD

 

[Mark Kamill]

Yep, SSD is too pricey at the moment. But as our wonderful tech dcc helped me discover, the hybrids work just as well and are as cheap as normal HDDs as well, so there's that option too.

 

[Tsutarja]

How much space do you have on your HDD? I have a 240 GB SSD but I'm not in danger of running out of space anytime soon.

I have 1TB on my external HDD and it's two-thirds full just from backups of my computers and important files.

 

[Cordelia]

I was curious so I had to check;
Skyrim: 56.4GB
Oblivion: 35.9GB
Fallout3: 28.8GB
Fallout NV: 26.1GB

It occurs to me that I may download a few too many mods.



Naturally, I'm a well behaved adult woman and as such I would never pirate anything.
Music: 213.1GB
Movies: 180.0GB
Pictures: 21GB
TV: 71.3GB


Perhaps I'll buy myself a new hard drive for Christmas.

Atta girl. Dat music though, omg!

Music: 57.6GB
Movies: 308GB
Pictures: N/A
TV: 783.9GB
Books: 26.3GB
Apps: 23.3GB
Documentaries: 8.3GB

^ Those habits are why I need a 4TB External. :x

 

[Mark Kamill]

Unless those shows are direct non-compressed rips of blu-rays, omfg how many shows are those 700 gigs?!

 

[Somniac]

Atta girl. Dat music though, omg!

Music: 57.6GB
Movies: 308GB
Pictures: N/A
TV: 783.9GB
Books: 26.3GB
Apps: 23.3GB
Documentaries: 8.3GB

^ Those habits are why I need a 4TB External. :x

I have 3 bookshelves of books, yet no non-physcial books :p

Unless those shows are direct non-compressed rips of blu-rays, omfg how many shows are those 700 gigs?!

Each season of Pokemon is 10+gigs alone, and that's a dated anime which is much less filesize per episode than a live action show.

I imagine stuff like 5seasons of Doctor Who would be pretty hefty on the filesize.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

There's got to be some impulsive downloading going on here. There's no way anyone could have 200 GB of MP3s that they all find enjoyable. :S

 

[Aeroblast]

How do you find how much space each of your media takes up?