How often do you access your files

Gambisk · 12 Mar 2014 at 10:59

I was thinking about this after reading the how much computer storage to you Really use thread.

Firstly, to those of you with massive quantities of storage well into the Terabites what do you store on them?

Secondly do you guys who have massive amounts of storage regularly access the content on them or are they full of a lot of old files that only get looked at from time to time?

I have a reasonable games library that I play regularly of 10-20 games that is the bulk of my hard drive, while my music library is about 30GB. I would access the majority of this on a regular basis.

Admiral Huddy · 12 Mar 2014 at 11:04

Higher capacity means you can have a decent Steam library ready. Also, if your into photography then there's a good chance your RAW/JPG files are going to be pretty hefty.

With the cost per GB being so cheap it doesn't make sense not to have a higher capacity drive.

Woden · 12 Mar 2014 at 11:10

I have 1TB NAS that I used for storing AVIs of my DVD collection. That's not even conencted now since I re-did my home network. Use netflix more.

My Desktop has a 2TB HDD for Steam and Origin. No where near filling it but they are just so cheap, be silly to get something smaller.

Gambisk · 12 Mar 2014 at 11:32

Admiral Huddy said:
Higher capacity means you can have a decent Steam library ready. Also, if your into photography then there's a good chance your RAW/JPG files are going to be pretty hefty.

With the cost per GB being so cheap it doesn't make sense not to have a higher capacity drive.

I'm aware that the cost of storage is very cheap, but to me a large steam library is pointless if you only play half a dozen of the games on it, to me that is wasting space.

I hadn't considered photography, that would fill up space pretty fast.

Woden · 12 Mar 2014 at 12:42

It's not really wasted, can always delete games you don't play if you need the room.

Morfinel · 12 Mar 2014 at 15:45

And is having ridiculous amount of data slow computers? Drop fsp? Or slow os?

Woden · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:41

Morfinel said:
And is having ridiculous amount of data slow computers? Drop fsp? Or slow os?

Nope. It might effect loading times if you don't defrag, but actual running performance wont be affected.

wildman_33 · 17 Mar 2014 at 16:41

Morfinel said:
And is having ridiculous amount of data slow computers? Drop fsp? Or slow os?

Wouldn't make a difference if it was on a separate drive. I use an SSD for my OS, an SSD for steam and have an old WD 640gb drive for everything else. The WD drive isn't even spinning most of the time as the computer does not need to access it. It only really spins up when I use origin which is on that drive. I reformatted recently as I was having other issues and have so far noticed no performance increase over my old installation which had been there for 2 years.