What pc storage do you'll have?

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I have a 1tb hd, 2 250gb ssd's and 1tb ssd; quite a few games (and work) on them.

Anybody having an insane amount of storage or like a friend of mine who has only a 120gb ssd for his OS and everything else.
 
1tb Samsung 980 pro m2 (OS), 0.5 tB Samsung 950 pro (old system drive, now general use), 2TB Samsung Evo (games) + NAS (4X 10TB + 4X16TB WD Red Pro).

Bunch of old mech drives that I've rotated out of the NAS, mostly on the shelf.
 
I have about 1.75 tb spread acrosss 4 SSDs, at least half that is music + music backup and a shed load of movie videos.
If it wasnt for the media storage I could comfortably get away with about 500gb total.

My laptop is only 120gb SSD, but it's just for light duties/remote connections so don't need more.
 
OS = 512GB SSD

Games = 1TB SSD

Storage 2x 4TB SSD's (8TB Windows Storage Spaces)

Ext Backup Raid 10 8TB (4x4TB WD Reds).
 
In mine:
Everyday setup. 256 M.2 for linux, 120 Sata for W10, 1TB for files.
Encoder/Video PC. 256 M.2 W10, 3TB for media/Scratch disc.
Laptop 256 M.2 for W10, 160GB for the odd files as I hardly use it.
a 3TB backup for completed projects & media.
3 500GB lying spare from Nephews old builds I use for W10 backup of the above & Dad's PC. A 640GB that's 12 years old that may still have my nephews steam games on.
A 1TB 2.5" that I backed up my media onto, always a good idea to keep 2 backups.
Couple of old 120Gb SSDs that could be close to wearing out.
 
Adata SX8200pro 1TB nvme as system drive including the few games I play
Sabrent rocket 1TB nvme as my storage drive for videos (not films as home videos and premier project files) and photos
Corsair MP510 500GB nvme as a download and scratch disk.
 
Across many rigs:

Main: 240GB Boot SATA SSD, 512GB Program/Storage SATA SSD (750GB Total)
Secondary: 120GB Boot SATA SSD, 512GB Program/Storage SATA HDD (630GB Total)
Tertiary Laptop: 64GB Boot SATA SSD (64GB Total)
Windows 98SE Gaming System: 40GB Boot ATA HDD, 40GB Program/Storage RAID0 ATA (80GB Total)
 
The storage options on my main PC:

3x 256GB SSDs
1x 256GB NVME
1x 512GB NVME
1x 1TB HDD (planning on getting rid of)

1x Network attached 128GB shared drive I use for documents backup
1x Network attached 512GB shared drive I use for backing up my "working environment"
NAS with 4TB storage for general backup
 
OS = M2 NVME Samsung 970 Evo Plus 256 gig. Who needs PCI-E 4 with these speeds!
Games = 860 Evo Samsung SSD 500 Gig. New edition, solid piece of kit.
Back-up drive = Western Digital Black 7200 RPM SATA hard drive, best drive I ever bought worked flawlessly over 7 years! But now ready for retirement, hard drives are so noisy.
 
256GB SSD for OS and main apps
256GB for few other apps and storage
1TB HDD for games storage
500GB SSD for games which I am playing (move on and off SSD from HDD)
1TB OneDrive storage for stuff I do not want to lose like photo's, documents etc
 
256gb wd black 720 nvme for os
960gb kingston dc500m ssd for games
1tb wd black for data and games
960gb micron 5100max for vms

May get rid of the wd black spinner for 2tb ssd at some point
 
1TB ADATA NVME C drive. Apparently ADATA have silently changed to a lesser controller chip so I would now avoid this brand until they stop doing that.
10TB WD Red on a NAS, no redundancy just a UPS, backed up on various WD 4TB drives.
 
Internal:
- OS: 500GB sata SSD
- Games / Data / Injest: 1TB m.2 SSD - photos/videos etc imported to here and edited / culled, then copied to archive once keepers are decided.
- Archive (inside the case): 2TB HDD (master repository of photos etc )

External
- Backup Drive (USB external): 2TB HDD - straight copy of archive drive
- Network Backup: 2x 2TB ZFS in hotswap server unit. - straight copy of archive drive.
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1x 1TB SSD
2x 6TB HDD
1x 14TB HDD


Ideally I could do with 1-2x more 14-16TB HDDs, 1x 2TB NVME (for video games) and that should do me for this decade but we'll see.

I am so tempted to build an unraid server but transferring 26TB of data to it gives me palpitations at the ammount of time I'll likely waste doing it.
 
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