How do people manage their disk space these days?

[wunkley]

Games are big these days. Massive. Many games are now 50GB's + unpacked so hard drive space is starting to become an issue.

I did a new gaming build only about 10 months ago. Knew I wanted SSD drives only (mainly noise / silent system reasons as well as speed) and got a 1TB SSD drive and a 500GB SSD drive for my games (OS on a 250GB SSD). So, 3 drives, 2 fairly big purely for games - I thought this would serve me well for quite a while.

However, I'm almost full capacity now on both gaming drives. I have Steam and some stand alone installs and mods on my 1TB drive, then Uplay, Origin, and a few standalone games on my 500GB drive.

What's the best way to 'manage' space and keep things tidy with regards to steam, uplay etc? Or is the only answer to keep buying new bigger drives? I only really play a handful of games at any one time, but I want to be able to dip into older and other games ad-hoc, and don't want hassle.

I've very recently upgraded to medium fibre broadband, so particularly for Steam I guess I could delete local files for some games and re download them when needed? What used to take me half a day to a day can now be downloaded in a few hours.
Any other tips though?

 

[wunkley]

Cheers lads. As I've just upgraded to 40meg broadband, I guess some deleting and re-downloading as and when is in order then. If I didn't have fibre broadband though, what would the options be? Just wondering if I haven't missed something obvious...

 

[wunkley]

Thanks for the replies lads. Turning into quite a popular thread, who'd have thunk it.

Bit the bullet and deleted some games I haven't touched for ages. It really pained me to do it though! I too am from the age of dial up and am very used to hoarding/ backing up data.