As a PC Gamer how much HD space do you typically use?

[TheAstrohaut]

As the title says. How much space do you avid gamer's use a year? What size is your current HDD? How much space have you used on your current hdd?

-TheAstrohaut

 

[Smoblikat]

Well, I have ISO backups of all my games, thats roughly 1TB. I have 600gb full on my 750 of games that are installed. My OS drrive has 200gb of 270gb free. So id say one and a half TB of data (not including movies and music, thats another 1tb.

 

[TheAstrohaut]

Well, I have ISO backups of all my games, thats roughly 1TB. I have 600gb full on my 750 of games that are installed. My OS drrive has 200gb of 270gb free. So id say one and a half TB of data (not including movies and music, thats another 1tb.

How many games do you have??? And DAMMNN!

 

[Smoblikat]

How many games do you have??? And DAMMNN!

I know . I have basically every game you can think of, old and new.

 

[Zap]

160GB SSD only 1/3 full.
256GB SSD half full.

That's with lots of games installed which I don't even play. If I uninstalled what I don't play, I'll probably have only 90GB used (this includes Windows and all games I actively play).

 

[ShintaiDK]

300GB SSD, 100GB used. No HD.

 

[Monster_Munch]

I have a new 3TB seagate drive which is less than half full with all my games on. My Steam folder is over 800GB by itself though.

C : - 256GB Crucial SSD (Windows install)
D : - 3TB Seagate HD (Games/Steam installs)
E : - 1TB Samsung HD (Movies/Photos/Music/Fraps)

 

[PhoenixEnigma]

157GB for games. Obviously doesn't include OS, other programs, or media. A lot of those are just taking up space and not getting played, but those ones just sit on a 1TB drive, and it's easier to deal with Steam installs from there than downloading again.

 

[mikeymikec]

I have some of the games installed, either depending on whether I'm currently playing them or whether they're a PITA to reinstall, or not using up much disk space anyway and I might want to play them again in the foreseeable future. Including my Steam folder, 60GB. My Apps folder (where I install applications) is 3.5GB. My Windows 7 folder is 24GB.

My 'Backup' folder (where I keep downloaded program installers, program patches, etc) is 8.3GB.

I wouldn't class myself as an avid gamer (I probably buy a game once a year). I have a box in the loft that probably contains 40-50 PC games. I uninstall a game if I don't think I'm going to play it again at any point soon, generally speaking.

 

[Golgatha]

142GB of patches, mods, and installers. 626GB of game installs between my SSD and 1TB RAID0 array. 132 out of a possible 209 games installed on Steam. 626GB worth of full disc images via Acronis 2010 for backups. The backups have both an onsite and offsite backup, so roughly 2.3TB total storage required for my gaming habit and 768GB for just the games themselves.

 

[tornadog]

I bought a 1.5TB drive just for games 3 years back. At one point in time it was about half full. That was before my gaming career ended. Now I have about 50GB used out of which about 30 something is just Max Payne 3. I have 50+ games in steam but steam is no longer installed; I have 10+ games in origin out of which only 1(SimCity 4) is installed.

DAMN THIS THREAD JUST MADE ME SAD!

 

[thelastjuju]

I bought a 1.5TB drive just for games 3 years back. At one point in time it was about half full. That was before my gaming career ended. Now I have about 50GB used out of which about 30 something is just Max Payne 3. I have 50+ games in steam but steam is no longer installed; I have 10+ games in origin out of which only 1(SimCity 4) is installed.

DAMN THIS THREAD JUST MADE ME SAD!

Wow, I didn't know there were other SC4 players around these parts..

I think my plugins folder for SC4 is about 12GB :biggrin:

I keep every game I owned installed and ready to launch.. many fully modded out and with the custom settings and controls already mapped out. Everything fits nicely on a 640gb, with about 150gb free.

 

[IGemini]

I have a huge assortment of games, from NES emulated to current PC stuff. A lot of my newer games are still on Steam and I'm working on getting my Steam catalog on disk while putting some currently-playing stuff on my SSD, to save from downloading time if I want to play something else. I have 175GB on disk so far. I use a 115GB Corsair Force and a 1TB Samsung HD103.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I think maybe total 300GB currently.

 

[AdamK47]

I'm over 2.6TB with 840 games installed.

 

[WiseUp216]

Crucial M4 128GB : 55% Used
Seagate Barracuda 1TB : 50% Used
WD MyBookLive 2TB : 30% Used

 

[BFG10K]

I have 395GB worth of games installed.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

For just games, I have a samsung 1tb spinpt installed. That's not to say it's full or even close tho. Most, if not all my games are now through steam, and majority of them aren't installed. I tend to buy games in packs, like when steam had the THQ pack that came with a buttload of games including most of the Dawn of War stuff and TQ. I'd say I have about 200gb of installed games atm.

 

[tweakboy]

As the title says. How much space do you avid gamer's use a year? What size is your current HDD? How much space have you used on your current hdd?

-TheAstrohaut

15 Games

including , BF3 and MW3 and SF4 NFS run, batman and more...

avg game size is 13GB ,, so 13GB x 15 = 195GB . MP3 is next game Im getting its 35GB, so make that 230GB for games...

thx

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

I am under 200GB on my home system between OS, Office, music and the games I have on my system. I have Diablo 3, STWOR, and I think 4 older games that I havent removed yet.

 

[Herald85]

I'm at 207GB for Steam, WoW, SC2 and D3. Some older games (HoMM3, D2, TA,..) combined take up 10GB.

If I would reinstall my pc now I would only install D3, the older games and maybe one or two Steam games. The rest is just too much effort to delete

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Not that much actually. My "Games" folder, comes out to 350gb, and there are definitely plenty of things I could delete out of there.

 

[gus6464]

Damn how many games do you guys play at one given time? I have less than 100gb used and that's counting windows for SWTOR, D3, SC2, and Wow (awaiting the arrival of Pandas).

 

[Aikouka]

I use four HDDs in my main system:

#1 256GB Crucial M4 SSD - OS + Applications
#2 80GB Intel X25-M - WoW + SC2 + Diablo III
#3 2TB HDD - Steam + iTunes + Amazon MP3 + other games
#4 2TB HDD - Anything else

I have 13.2GB free on #2 and 879GB free on #3.

EDIT:

Most of #3 is my Steam library. I have a pretty large collection of games (not as bad as some on this forum ), and I've installed probably 60-70% of them. Sometimes, I would get to the end of the month, and see that I wasn't close to my 250GB Comcast cap. So, I would just download whatever games I wanted overnight. If I'm paying for it, I might as well use it.

Some games are pretty large too... Max Payne 3 is 28GB and Star Wars Force Unleashed is 25GB. I believe Rage is pretty big too.

 

[slpnshot]

I'm over 2.6TB with 840 games installed.

Holy...

I would love a screen shot of that, lol.

For me, I would say 150~Gb. Witcher 2 took a pretty good chunk of that with the EE.