Best HDD size for Steam

[steelodon]

What is the best HDD size for Steam?

 

[fourdegrees11]

How many games do you own on Steam, or plan to own?

 

[Dankk]

Depends on how many games you plan on having installed at the same time. I have a 4TB hard drive dedicated to Steam games, and it is already almost full with ~500 games installed.

 

[shortylickens]

I have to keep deleting stuff from my 1TB drive.
Got an enterprise 3TB drive last month, but I never felt like moving everything over.
Gonna have to do that sometime soon.

 

[Craig234]

Just got a 5TB for a new Steam system.

 

[xantub]

I actually use a 256GB SSD for Steam. Since I only have installed what I'm playing, it works just fine... and super fast.

 

[skipsneeky2]

I think for the foreseeable future,a new 1TB drive should easily hold my collection then some.Currently running a 300gb and leaving off Titanfall which i never play anymore i got 136gb free.Got a handful of older games running under 10gb each to install which will go on another rig with a 120gb ssd.

The 300gb should work fine for a while but a drive with a 70mbps write is noticeably slow after using a ssd for ages as a os drive and damn that BF4 load which takes a whopping 3 mins at least.

 

[shortylickens]

More than just having an SSD, you need a SATA 3.2 motherboard and drive for the best speeds.

I'm not upgrading my gaming system until I can afford a top of the line motherboard and 1TB SSD.

 

[Jumpem]

A 256 GB SSD should be plenty. You only really need to have the games that you are currently playing installed.

 

[Sabrewings]

I have a 480GB PCIe SSD that I use for the OS and steam games. I don't care about downloading games when I want them as I have a pretty quick internet connection. As such, I usually have 5-10 games installed and I'm never over 2/3 full.

If I did care about downloading, Steam has an option to backup files. So, before uninstalling I would backup the game's files to my 9TB RAID5. Best of both worlds since you get long term storage and when you want to play them you reload the backup files to the SSD for blistering load speeds.

 

[Oyeve]

I have 4 1tb ssds drives. 2 are dedicated for steam, one for music and videos and one for os and apps.

 

[MustISO]

I'm using a 500GB SSD for Steam games. This is a fresh install so I'm not planning to download anything I don't want to play right now and try to keep the drive for games I'm currently playing.

 

[futurefields]

i have a 3tb for Steam/Origin/Uplay, system files on a 500gb

 

[CPA]

I have a 3tb with about 1tb left. Only about 40% of my games are installed.

 

[paperfist]

Just got a 5TB for a new Steam system.

Wow my picture collection isn't even that big. How many games do you have ?

 

[Craig234]

More than just having an SSD, you need a SATA 3.2 motherboard and drive for the best speeds.

I'm not upgrading my gaming system until I can afford a top of the line motherboard and 1TB SSD.

I don't know anything about SATA 3.2, I just asked for suggestions in the MB forum, and got the ASrock extreme6. Hope it's good. Got a 512GB SSD and 5tb HD.

 

[Craig234]

Wow my picture collection isn't even that big. How many games do you have ?

Way over 1000 on Steam, hundreds on gog.com.

Funny thing, I play almost only World of Tanks and Rift. Those will go on SSD.

 

[cronos]

I never actually care about a particular drive size because my steam games are all over the place (read: wherever there's space). I used to use that program that create symlink so I can install a game in a different drive, but now this is a built-in Steam feature so there's no need to worry about that anymore.

Currently some of my games are on my SSD and some are on a 1 TB internal drive.

 

[jlee]

240GB SSD. There's tons of room...I only play a couple of games at a time.

 

[balloonshark]

Some AAA games are 50GB so use that figure as a way to figure out how much space you need.

 

[Harrod]

Raid 0 on 2 256gb ssds.

 

[KentState]

I typically do 1TB of SSD for Steam/Origin/Uplay and other random games. The only time that RAID proved beneficial was during an integrity check. It would easily read the game files at > 1GB/sec, otherwise a single SSD proved easier to live with.

 

[TechBoyJK]

In order to determine the best hard drive size for steam, I would take a look at how much space your steam install uses or will use...

 

[TeknoBug]

I have ~70 games installed but own more, I have Steam games installed to my 1TB HDD and it's taking up about ~400GB.

 

[postmortemIA]

I've not seen anybody play more than 10 games per week. you could have zillion, but there is no way you will play them all ��