How do people manage their disk space these days?

wunkley said:
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.
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I am from that age also, but you must be new to a fast line, after a while you realise you can download anything you want fast enough. Any game you want at most is a couple of hours download away. Just think of it as, why should you spend money and store stuff when you can let them store it for you, just download the specific content you need when you do.

Also do not forget, steam shows the space needed on hard drive most of the time, keep an eye out for the download size. A game I downloaded last said 15gb, but was 8gb to download for example.
 
I managed to get away with managing space on a single 250GB SSD for about 6 months.

Needless to say I eventually got fed up of deleting / re-downloading stuff (particularly with my hamster driven 5 meg line!) so went for a 3TB HDD and haven't had to delete anything since.
 
If I need space I just pick the game I haven't played much of and then delete it, downloading again in the future isn't an issue as it's so quick.

Since upgrading to a 500Gb SSD though I haven't had to delete much if anything but then again I don't hoard games like some.
 
3/4 main games on my ssd gta5, cs go, forza horizon 3 etc
ive a 512gb ssd with all my programs and games on it

then anything else i've a 3tb mechanical for.

usually just download as an when i need.
 
As long as you have your saved game files stashed away, you can just delete the game itself and reinstall when the need takes you
 
My 160Gb OS drive and 500Gb gaming SSD are both nearly full too. With the new games being up to 70Gb, plus all my VR games, it doesn't take many to fill them up.

I don't want to delete some games that I have not played in a while, like GTA V, as I may want to play it over Christmas - and when they are SO BIG - you don't want to go to the hassle of re-downloading them again. Although my new 240 meg connection is unreal, I still prefer to have them there, especially if I have customized/modded them a lot (still haven't uninstalled Skyrim even though I haven't played it in years...). I'm a hoarder... :(

COD Infinite War is over 70Gb - I mean why? Could they not have done it in half the space? Are devs deliberately bloating the size of some games to make them seem more substantial? Reminds me of some of the women I work with making what should be a 10 page report - 40 pages long instead! That is not better!
 
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Yep more hard drive space is how i do it... 2 SSDs for OS and "modern games", spinning drive for all media, documents and any older games i don't care about load times. In my case at least any vibration is completely damped and there is no noise.
 
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