How many GB you need?

2 tb. Sample libraries and software installation. I do mostly media / audio production and have found that 2 tb is a comfy minimum. All the work that is "done" gets transfered to my hdd bulk storage and NAS raid for redundancy

STOP NO DON'T FUCKING DO IT.
I'm here to tell you now that a. 128gb for the os is. Shit.
Not only is it too small, but they are also slower then larger capacity models.
Just get a 500gb and be done.

patriot blaze or the kingston in OPs post.

you don't have the technical acumen to be taken seriously. ~120 is perfectly fine for the OS. Browsers like chrome are usually going to be installed on the boot drive so as long as you move your downloads folder to your storage drive and periodically clean your browser cache/cookies, you'll be fine.

A 256 GB SSD as standard in most Ultrabooks is definitely not enough. I have to shuffle files over to my NAS and external drives all the time.

>need
more. I always need more. Also, "done in the cloud" just means "someone else's computer somewhere else" and "external backups" just mean someone else's harddrives somewhere else.

Across 2 systems:

(3 x 3TB) + (2 x 4TB) + (1 x 8TB) storage, some in external enclosures. My personal graphics archive is about 3TB of unique, copyrighted material I've created and keep on-hand as resources and portfolio. I collect a lot of music in flac, and a couple TB in anime and animations, some pretty unusual and hard to find stuff. It's all duplicated, some triplicated. A few movies, maybe ~100 GB, single copies that will get deleted. The HDDs still have several TB unused space that I'm filling, Triplicates get deleted when space is needed, buy more HDDs when I'm at 80%+ capacity with duplicates.

Also have a few 2TB, 1TB and 750GB in the closet, some with mirrored OS installs until/unless they are needed for other reasons. Two old 2TB Samsungs (pre-Seagate) torrent 24/7/365 and have for nearly a decade now. Can't detect anything wrong with them and they're both around 100,000 hours of service. They can die while I'm typing this and nothing will be lost.

Main OS/application drive is SSD. On one system it's a 250 GB and the other a 525 GB. I overprovision, so the 525 has 300 GB available space after formatting, the 250 has 150 GB usable space. Holds OS plus VM, plus all heavy-lift applications. About 50 GB of older games, which I honestly can uninstall since I rarely have time. Full Adobe suite, full Corel suite. I do a fair bit of graphics and animation work.

I just bought the 8TB (HGST Helium) and the 2 x 3TB HDDs (HGST Ultrastars) around Christmas, deliberately overbought so I don't have to think about it for the next three or so years. Probably during 2020/2021 I'll build a home RAID with something like 25TB or 30TB capacity. Depends on money and need.

My / partition for the OS holds 18 GB so there's no arguing that 128 GB isn't more than enough for a OS drive. The point about speed is valid, though, 500 GB drives are mostly faster than the 128 and 256 variants. But it's irrelevant to me personally because I don't notice the difference. If it's a modern SSD then it's fine. I do notice if the OS is on a eMMC (some chromebooks have those instead of a SSD) and I definitively notice if it's on HDD.

kingston a400

Im planning to build a nas for around 50tb to data hoard
There are times that quality tv/movie rips that i watched before is gone

Even on my phone 256 plus the stock 64 aren't enough.
I save a lot of porn that I don't even fap to and take a shit ton of creep pics

>/dev/mapper/8470p1--vg-root 28G 19G 7.9G 70% /
That's with 3884 packages in debian and me not giving a shit about cleaning up the cache

Why do people do this? Why do you back up absolutely meaningless data?
Do you cling to the past? Are you chronophobic?

32GB should be enough for anybody. Except gaymers, they need a thick throbbing mechanical hard drive to shove up their ass.

>meaningless data
Matter of opinion. Very much like your opinion, which is meaningless.

Here's what I have come to see.
If I have room for more than one storage device, then my SSD needs to be no larger than 512GB, all the heavy storage is best shifted off to HDDS.

If i were to have some retarded ultrabook with only an M.2 slot, then I'd go for a 1TB SSD or larger.

Why do we even have storage in 2018, I should be able to boot some tiny slitaz type distro straight into ram from a server address stored in the firmware. Mount yandex.disk as my /home, help the russians win the next election, kill so many birds with one nuke.

I presume you selectively skipped the rest of the post. You are a sad little man. Time to let go and move on.

I don't back up meaningless data. Hell, I hardly back up meaningful data. I've been working on changing that.

32 GB isn't even enough for Windows 10 to update itself. I recently had to fix one of these Asus netbooks with W10 preinstalled on 32GB eMMC. It wouldn't stop giving warnings about still being on 1607 while being unable to update itself due to not enough space. I had to wipe the thing and install LTSB 2016.

Revo Uninstaller should help you out if you didn't know about it.

Only gamerfags and warez pups need more space.

>Debian (or arch or gentoo or whatever, it doesn't matter)
>i3 + occasional xfce session w/ i3 as wm
>runtimes and libraries for 4 different programming languages
>multiple versions/environments for each language (pyenv, rbenv, nvm, a few android SDKs)
>dozens of personal git repos
>dozens of git repos from various FOSS projects and libraries
>2 git repos with hundreds of bloated commits of logs, caches, and lockfiles from pajeet developers

/ is maybe 5GiB. /home is 30GiB tops. When you don't play games or watch childish cartoons, disk space isn't necessary.

It has, but that doesn't save from drive failure, only mistakes.

I don't want to hear about windows unless you have shkreli tier excel skills. No gamer shit.

I'll have you know Samurai Jack is a piece of art, not some childish anime.

youtube.com/watch?v=Bgl6b7WX_n8

I want to get to the point where I just boot from a cheap SD card.

Get a Raspberry Pi

That's what I'm going for, but on a desktop. Internal storage seems dated now.

250gb is more than enough for my laptop, since all it has is work stuff, personal projects and few indie/old games.
I do have a spare 2tb home server for some movies and animes though, but only because I find it easier to download a 1080p torrent than trying to stream it from a random place reliably.

>boot from a cheap SD card
That would be a fantastically stupid idea, as cheap SD cards, anything not top tier photography grade, are known for failure and data integrity issues.

You're better off to get an mSATA or SATA-DOM SSD, those are actually built to host an OS reliably.

I can run a Linux distro with all of my development tools off 120GB.
You only need more if you want to put large games or media libraries on it, or huge pieces of software, in which case you should know if you need more.

1 TB on my workstation because I don't play gay games or hoard data. Laptop I get away with less than 300 GB.

I have 7TB

I lot. I am very bad at managing my files. I don't even know where half my shit is.

>OS: No more than 120
The state of windows useds.

These posts make me smile, as I used to dualboot Windows 7 and Mint from a 16GB SSD.

>he puts his data in the cloud

>the cloud
AHAHAHHAAHAHAHAH
(HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
fuck off
>OS: No more than 120
nigger what kinda fucking os are you using my / partition is 30gb and that's also where I have my packages

nonsense. im on windows 7 with a 128 gb and not even half of it is used. and i have photoshop, illustrator, office, etc all installed

5MB

[need]: 480GB would be enough.
[want]: at least 4TB

420

If there were justice in the world this would be the right answer

128mb AT MOST

>almost everything is done in the cloud and backups are external
Not in my world it ain't. Currently I'm still getting by relatively fine with a 250 GB system SSD and a 2 TB storage HDD, but I can kiss that goodbye if I ever start collecting movies in noteworthy quality or start falling for the 24 bit 192 khz music meme where every album is like 4 GB.

my os 128 ssd is pretty much full, my 2tb media hdd has 40gb free

this I also don't understand. I have a 250gb SSD and a 1tb hdd and I've never went beyond 30% usage on both of them.
why would anyone keep more than 2-3 games at a time?
why would anyone keep a movie after watching?
is everyone's internet connection to that bad?

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That's like saying the dara voyager sent us is useless, it's still being used today

Currently I have 12 tb installed.

More than 1tb of anime music lossless (flac), some are vinyl rips 24bits 96khz.
7tb of anime
Lots of steam games installed.

I also take a lot of photos.
More than 1tb of raw files.

I feel I need more space. because 12tb is not enough.

Why would I download a movie every time I want to watch it? Why would I redownload games when I could simply not uninstall them?

It's time to change your life mate

120gb ssd for OS and programs
1tb hard drive for games and other big files
500gb external hard drive for porn and backups

I have room to spare too.

Do you back any of that up?

Games are at the 100GB+ level nowadays. I say 3TB minimum is the limit just so you can comfortably store whatever else you need too.

I save nothing to the cloud, don't trust it, you retards.

I got
2x 240GB SSDs for Win10/Fedora27
1x 480GB SSD for games
1x 1TB SSD for whatever, movies, pictures, videos and more.

No back up of the anime files.

Only do backups of the photos and other personal stuff.

if you are windows fag then yes.

240gb SSD is enough for me.

30gb for root
8gb for swap
others for /home.

>250gb SSD and a 1tb hdd

Mate, games like Final Fantasy XV are 150 gb.
1tb is not enough unless you only play one game until you finish it.

>8TB (HGST Helium)

I bought the 8tb WD external drive.

Damn good drive for the price.

about 1To every 6 months

>a terabyte

Piker.

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you unironically need 500GB or 1TB for video games nowadays

one game takes up 40gb~

You know damn well you're never going to watch you have hoarded.

I have 10 240 GB SSD's and 20 500 Gb HDD's, along with three 1.5 TB HDD's I actually use. Depends on what you're doing, 1 TB is probably enough for the average user.

Woo wow look at you. Having hd movies on hand as a collection rather than shelves full of them is great.
Why jew yourself out of disk space? Ah you only have a media pc with one hard drive bay, ok yeah real KOOL.

Honest question coming from someone who has not had a modern gaming PC for 7+ years, give or take. I still game, and quite a lot, but it's mostly older games and RPGs that are 3 or 4 GBs at the most.

So, is SSD gaming a thing. And if so, how do people do it without breaking the bank? I'm asking this because I see a ton of tech reviewers and YT gamers posting about the massive performance advantages that SSDs have on modern games (no stuttering when loading areas), but I don't possibly see how these teens can possibly do it without getting in debt or some shit, ESPECIALLY considering the amount of games they play. Are they really using 2k SSDs on top of the added cost their gaming PCs had to begin with?

I'm doing fine with 2TB right now. I'm not hoarding tho. But SSD really need to step up in GB/$.
>since almost everything is done in the cloud
yeah except it's fucking not
muh games
muh pirated hentai
muh dank meme stashes

Also in the age of SSD it's not even a question because over-provisioning = longevity.

you mean step down

>So, is SSD gaming a thing.
Yeah.
>And if so, how do people do it without breaking the bank?
I ask that too. I recently got my first SSD. One of the cheapest I could find without going full into trash zone. SanDisk 120GB, 42 EUR. Great for OS + small games but only a few (((modern))) games will fit.

I usually need about 1024. Enough to hold a good deal of stuff, but not enough to hoard.

At least 500 gig. With 128 gig SSD I feel like MacBook user, something had in asshole.

The patrician way is having a lot of HDD storage in NAS and only an SSD or two in the desktop.

This, I'm trying to move in that direction. got about 5tb all tied up on my desktop, don't want to add any more drives until i get a nas.

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I almost thought it was a leftist meme first.

I don't need much. Just a couple games and documents. 1TiB is enough.

for movies and tv shows? probably like 20tb

1080p tv shows take up a lot of space. movies not so much if you only keep the ones you like

external harddrives break easily, so i stopped buying them. i only use 128gb/256gb flash drives

you don't really need much space if you're not download movies, games or tv shows

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>almost everything is done in the cloud
found the faggot
surprise, its OP!

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Got a 500GB HD + a 500GB external, it's enough for me.

>128gb
Little tight for Windows or MacOS, plenty for Linux.
>256gb
Sweet spot for most who dont need a raft of fat and heavy dev tools.
>512gb
Generous enough for said fat and heavy toolkit.
>1tb+
Here be Data-hoarders and status symbol junkies.

Is it better to have a separate drive for the OS and have a larger one for other shit, or is it fine to just throw it all on a 500gb one.

For SSD boot drives, I recommend if you are on a budget get at least 250GB, 500GB is recommended however as you will have plenty of space for all the shit you fuck up.

That's a dumb argument because streaming movies is perfectly doable unless you have shit internet. Likewise downloading a game to play it for a few weeks at a time is not that huge of a hassle.

>using swap at all when you have at least 4 gigs of ram
Enjoy your shitty performance and heavy wear on your SSD whenever kernel decides it's a good idea to swap, because you didn't tweak it to avoid it as much as possible. You'd be better off leaving that space unformatted for over-provisioning.

Having empty space on an SSD is a good idea, because you want the controller to have empty space to move things around to wear cells evenly. If you're filling up your larger SSD and writing to it as much as to a smaller one, it should survive for longer.

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>streaming
I'd rather not be dependent on an Internet connection for something as basic as watching a movie.
>Likewise downloading a game to play it for a few weeks at a time is not that huge of a hassle.
It is when I want to play it fucking now and I can't because some dumbass like you decided it was a good idea to uninstall it.