Why is everyone talking about 1TB being tiny? I have one 1TB SSD and it’s the biggest storage medium in the entire house what kinda stuff do y’all save?
Storage capacity, especially in SSDs, has been increasing really fast and decreasing in price at almost the same rate. 1TB was a lot of space in 2010 and could set you back a few hundred at least for an HDD. In 2024, you can get a 2TB SSD that’s like 10x as fast as an HDD for under $100.
I mean, a lot of games are 100 GB+ each now. And then there’s mods, I’ve had plenty of 200+ GB Skyrim installs. MSFS2020 can easily tread beyond 300 GB with terrain packs and aircraft.
My Skyrim mods download folder alone is over ½ a TB.
I also want to load a 1TB MicroSD on my Steam Deck for emulation, so I need at least another 1TB to download the image file to flash to the MicroSD card. (I don’t want to fuff around downloading and curating a romset, so it’s easier to just download a 1TB image from a private tracker and flash it. From there, I can just swap individual roms/romhacks in and out as needed.)
My Deck will have a 1TB SSD and a 1TB MicroSD. My desktop had 2TB, but I just added another 4TB.
On the other hand, on my phone I barely use half of my 128GB and will likely never run out of space.
86 TB in my NAS (mix of 20TB and 16TB disks) plus 2TB of SSD. This is a my movie/Plex server.
2TB for my OS drive on my desktop, plus around 5 more TB across three different SSDs.
32TB for porn (yeah, that’s a lot I know. idc 😺)
Oh yeah and 16TB for daily OS drive backups and… Porn because I’m out of space.
1TB is bad value, and often on Amazon these days 2TB are literally the same price, even cheaper than 1TB, from the same manufacturer and same model series!
Have you perchance heard of “stash”? It’s a neat little program to sort and tag all the porn you’ve saved and access it thought a neat little webui. I’ve personally yet to actually use it, but maybe I will if I set up my own cloud
Actually I just found out about recently from another Lemming. Got it running but it isn’t tagging anything. I assume I have to add a plug-in or fiddle with it. Busy with finals right now.
On my 14TB divided among 7 drives of varying capacity form and speed, games, music, DVD rips, BR rips, 3d models, backups of other systems in my possession. 14TB is getting too small for my needs honestly, prolly gonna slap another 4TB at the problem instead of deleting old stuff.
my steam deck has 2tb in it and my computer has 2tb ssds one for linux one for windows I wouldn’t say 1tb is tiny but eh 2tb isn’t too expensive at this point so I wouldn’t buy anything below 2tb anymore personally
Why is everyone talking about 1TB being tiny? I have one 1TB SSD and it’s the biggest storage medium in the entire house what kinda stuff do y’all save?
For a HDD? It’s tiny and way over priced per GB.
For an SSD? It’s great.
Shitty games that are now 200gb each
They’re never worth it, a bunch of AAA is garbage
Storage capacity, especially in SSDs, has been increasing really fast and decreasing in price at almost the same rate. 1TB was a lot of space in 2010 and could set you back a few hundred at least for an HDD. In 2024, you can get a 2TB SSD that’s like 10x as fast as an HDD for under $100.
I store media, so my primary nas is 4x14tb disks
1TB is good for an SSD. But the main reason anyone gets a HDD is to get storage sizes that they can’t really afford in SSDs currently.
I mean, a lot of games are 100 GB+ each now. And then there’s mods, I’ve had plenty of 200+ GB Skyrim installs. MSFS2020 can easily tread beyond 300 GB with terrain packs and aircraft.
Well, they suggested a relatively small capacity in a mechanical drive
My main rig has 11TB, my media server two RAID1 arrays at 16TB and 18TB
It’s easy to get out of hand with media, games, lots of VMs, dedicated boot drives, etc
Oh gawd, maybe 6TB in SSDs and 25TB in HDDs!
I need more space.
My Skyrim mods download folder alone is over ½ a TB.
I also want to load a 1TB MicroSD on my Steam Deck for emulation, so I need at least another 1TB to download the image file to flash to the MicroSD card. (I don’t want to fuff around downloading and curating a romset, so it’s easier to just download a 1TB image from a private tracker and flash it. From there, I can just swap individual roms/romhacks in and out as needed.)
My Deck will have a 1TB SSD and a 1TB MicroSD. My desktop had 2TB, but I just added another 4TB.
On the other hand, on my phone I barely use half of my 128GB and will likely never run out of space.
86 TB in my NAS (mix of 20TB and 16TB disks) plus 2TB of SSD. This is a my movie/Plex server.
2TB for my OS drive on my desktop, plus around 5 more TB across three different SSDs.
32TB for porn (yeah, that’s a lot I know. idc 😺) Oh yeah and 16TB for daily OS drive backups and… Porn because I’m out of space.
1TB is bad value, and often on Amazon these days 2TB are literally the same price, even cheaper than 1TB, from the same manufacturer and same model series!
… Is porn about to be blocked where you are?
LMFAO 😅😂😂
No, I just enjoy hoarding it like Smaug hordes gold he will never use. Or in my case a few times a week 🤭
Have you perchance heard of “stash”? It’s a neat little program to sort and tag all the porn you’ve saved and access it thought a neat little webui. I’ve personally yet to actually use it, but maybe I will if I set up my own cloud
Actually I just found out about recently from another Lemming. Got it running but it isn’t tagging anything. I assume I have to add a plug-in or fiddle with it. Busy with finals right now.
Well, Brazil just finished porting Spider-Man 2 to PC and the install size is 250GB.
On my 14TB divided among 7 drives of varying capacity form and speed, games, music, DVD rips, BR rips, 3d models, backups of other systems in my possession. 14TB is getting too small for my needs honestly, prolly gonna slap another 4TB at the problem instead of deleting old stuff.
my steam deck has 2tb in it and my computer has 2tb ssds one for linux one for windows I wouldn’t say 1tb is tiny but eh 2tb isn’t too expensive at this point so I wouldn’t buy anything below 2tb anymore personally
I have a 1TB ssd for windows and stuff, and a very large 6 HD NAS server just for games and backups of server images.
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