How much Storage do you have?

Current PC:
1x 1TB NVMe M.2 (OS on a smaller partition)
1x 2TB NVMe M.2

Old PC:
2x 240GB SATA SSDs (used to be for dual boot OS one for Windows 7 & one for Windows 10)
1x 6TB mechanical drive

Other:
2x 2TB mechanical drives containing backup
13TB+ spread across multiple external hard drives of different sizes ranging from 500GB to 5TB

Altogether well over 25TB. Definitely will need some high capacity drives for turning the old PC into a NAS build.
 
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4Tb NVME SSD for boot drive and temporary storage
512Gb SATA SSD for short term use when moving stuff between drives and backing up.
2 x 18Tb mechanical disks (Raid 1)
2 x 6Tb mechanical disks (Raid 1)

I've also got an 18Tb External hard drive for backups.
 
My new 6x 20TB WD Elements drives arrived today, shucked then already. Looking forward to testing them and ultimately replacing my 6x 10 TB WD Red disks in my server! :D
 
Gigabit internet so media storage is a non-concern now as can download anything in minutes if needs be.

Storage is for production work and games and apps only these days.

2TB NVMe (OS/apps/games)
8TB NVMe (backups, data, personal files)
8TB SATA SSD (backups of the 2+8TB NVMEs

temp stuff for sharing it on 1TB OneDrive though, and have some on Google Drive too.
 
mrk said:
Gigabit internet so media storage is a non-concern now as can download anything in minutes if needs be.

Storage is for production work and games and apps only these days.

2TB NVMe (OS/apps/games)
8TB NVMe (backups, data, personal files)
8TB SATA SSD (backups of the 2+8TB NVMEs

temp stuff for sharing it on 1TB OneDrive though, and have some on Google Drive too.
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Same with gigabit jnternet but I'm less concerned with how long it takes to download stuff and more concerned with losing rare/unique things. It's happened to me before (decades ago) so I don't want it to happen again. I also have a load of HDTV recordings from 2008 onwards of stuff that never came out on Bluray and isn't on streaming services.
 
My desktop has 6 spare SATA ports so I hooked up my 6 new disks, ready to test them all. Took me several hours to figure out that 2 of the ports are just dodgy and don't work properly. Also good to learn that Windows is slow as hell when a disk it cannot talk to fluently is connected (10 min boot & shutdown times). Quite annoying because now my plan of transferring data from my current setup to my new one has to change. With only 6 total working SATA ports (instead of 8) and 6 disks to put in a ZFS array, I'm going to have to run Linux from a USB stick or something. Nothing can ever go smoothly, right? :)
 
OS - Samsung 980 Pro (2Tb)
Games - SN850x - 4Tb
Documents etc - SN770 (2Tb)

Just about to upgrade my PC, and add an additional drive, I'm not entirely sure what to go for tho.
 
Current PC is a bit of a mashup of drives of varying ages (some i'd gauge are 10+ yr old)

OS Drive - NVMe WD Black 1tb

Games (Spread across many HDDS)
120gb SSD (Old OS drive)
WD Caviar 1tb HDD
Samsung 860 Evo 500gb
WD Black - 2tb HDD

Films/Docs and stuff
4tb WD Blue drive

Looking to get rid/consolidate a few of the old plate drives and swap to quieter SSDs so might grab one or two over xmas.
 
C 1TB Sata SSD - OS
D 4TB HDD - mass storage, mostly used for media
E 256GB Sata SSD - Originally had this as a boot drive but got 1TB when it got full, now store all games on SSDs so 256GB doesnt cut it anymore.

On my next PC i am a little unsure what to get, my current motherboard doesnt support NVME its that old. I'm leaning towards getting a couple of gen4 drives, it seems like there is little performance gain going from gen4 > gen5 for gaming. Would it even impact things like OS boot times? loading times? I'm not so sure it would.
 
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