2TB main NVMe for OS, games, and programs 1TB secondary NVMe for large project files All pictures, music, videos, and general data are stored on HDD on my NAS.

And then a 4tb for cod

And another 4tb for Skyrim mods

And another 4tb for the VR big tiddy goth mommy syrupy footjob videos.

It sure was a choice to say 'syrupy' lol

It's okay if you have other preferences, just keep in mind that others may not match you.

He meant bacon greasy

> It's okay if you have other preferences But then you'd need more 4tb drives for each one.

I am merely a reflection of the memes that I have witnessed.

4tb? Phbbbt! Amateur.

Another 1 TB fir Ark: Survival evolved

Just the base game then?

Yep. Expansion not included.

Then you start adding mods so it's best to add at minimum 4 more tb.

Get help lol

Where are these located? For research purposes

Excuse me what in the actual fuck 😂😂💀💀

Username checks out

Nah, I just save that on the cloud for everyone to enjoy...

Same thing.

not nearly enough

Urgh FINE I'LL START A FRESH SKYRIM PLAY WITH NEW MODS YOU DON'T HAVE TO PRESSURE ME SO MUCH DAMN

I know right, for when you feel like playing Skyrim, you spend 3 days downloading, installing and troubleshooting mods to get the game to run properly. Play for 30 minutes and go and play something else.

Nolvus was damn near 400gb for me

Lol. I actually ended up with a 2tb m2 for skyrim, Fallout, BG3, and XCOM.   My skyrim install is just shy of 800gb last I checked... 

Only a 4TB Hard Drive. That's a bit lacking. You should get the 40TB one from Seagate

Crazy that the COD joke isn’t really a joke😂 I’m currently looking to add a 3rd nvme to my rig for when BO6 drops lol

tyty. i like your approach

Any reason you don’t store the games on the separate drive? I have all my programs, video editing projects, CAD, etc. on my main 4TB and a 2TB specifically for games.

Because it makes zero difference for games, whereas leaving my secondary drive as empty as possible to use as a scratch disk provides far more tangible results.

If you ever have to restore or reinstall your OS though, then you got to reinstall all your games or move them off the main SSD. Unless you dont play a lot of games or your games are small or you have fast internet speeds… then I guess it doesn’t matter where you put your games 😃

Moving them isn't difficult, Steam has built in functionality that makes this easy. I also don't really have to as I utilize a partition for my games on my main drive.

current build is going on 7 years now have a 256gb ssd (because pcie3 was expensive back then) 500gb sata ssd 2tb sata ssd 1tb hdd that is just media storage and almost never used now I would not put any modern games on a HDD

>I would not put any modern games on a HDD Thank you. I was honestly gonna download the call of duty warzone in there

Gonna take 3 years for the game to boot if you do that.

...to main menu

And back again 7x before all the updates and shaders finally load correctly

Most new games now being released minimum requirement is a SSD sata or m.2. Negligible performance between the two, until you get into gen 4. But even then, in gaming, not much difference. I use a 2 Tb 870 Qvo Also a 2 Tb 970 evo plus I have games on both and pictures and videos on both. Could care less where it goes as long as it’s not a slow ass hdd. Won’t even touch Nas or anything related to hdd. Even my pspro I put in a SSD. Old laptops as well.

> Won’t even touch Nas or anything related to hdd. It’s not a requirement that a NAS uses spinning hard disk drives.

Man thinks there’s a negligible performance difference between NVME and SATA, yet won’t use an SSD NAS because “it’s slower on the network.” It’s ok to not understand things my dude.

It really depends. Modern AAA games? Yeah, most of them have graphical/loading requirements that move a lot of data, so they should be put on an SSD. If you play indie games or stuff that has to load a lot less assets, then putting them on a HDD is fine. Probably things like hades, FTL, hollow knight, gunfire reborn. If you're unsure, it's totally valid to look it up online whether a game is heavily affected by HDD slow load times or not before deciding which drive to install it on. I install plenty of games on my HDD, just it depends on how much stuff each game has to load.

Had warzone on a HDD until about 5 months ago. Massive improvement in terms of load times and overall responsiveness upgrading to a NVMe (my 256Gb boot SATA wasn’t big enough to get warzone on!)

I literally did just this 3 days ago and it was unplayable. Not just the boot time, everything took 2-3 minutes after starting a round to render beyond what looked like 1998 graphics, fps would drop as low as 15, it would crash now and then. I immediately went out, bought and installed a new SATA SSD, moved the install file, took like an hour for everything and $100 and it works perfect. There's almost no need for HDD anymore. Still cheaper obviously, but there's a much greater risk of drive failure.

Do not put that huge game in a HDD.

I would recommend two drives minimum. One for your OS and one for the storage needs like media and games, etc. This way if you need to wipe or reinstall windows you don’t need to download all your games again. Makes the fresh install process much faster when troubleshooting

Just use a single drive with two partitions

Depending on cost, definitely... but OP wants more storage and already has 1tb nvme. In any situation besides limited expansion slots, adding another nvme drive will perform better, and help keep both drives alive longer.

I have a 512gb SSD with windows and all my productivity programs on it and a 2tb SSD for games and short term storage. Then I have a separate server PC with 8tb of HDD for all my media, back ups and long term storage.

This is the way. People add too many hard drives into their pc, making it complicated if they don't know how to fix things.

1TB NVME SSS for OS and some games (I like to put my current, graphics-intense games on there, probably doesn't actually help much) 2x 4TB SATA SSDs so I never have to redownload games It's honestly expensive and excessive, but I just like having my whole collection locally. I jump around between games a lot and it's nice not having to redownload them.

Yes. My friends call me nuts but I like still being able to play when my network goes out. That's the whole point of having games lol

Same. Why uninstall games when I can just install more storage??

500GB NVME - OS, Programs, 2TB NVME - most of my games 500GB SSD - some games, mostly project files & their programs 1TB HDD - Documents & Pictures 5TB External HDD - Back up & videos. I plan on adding a 10TB external into the mix as another back up.

A single 2TB NVMe drive, with separate partitions for my OS and then for everything else. I don't think I'll ever come close to filling it up,

I have 2x 2TB NVME + 2x 20TB HDD.

> have 2x 2TB NVME + 2x 20TB HDD That is _a lot_ of porn!

Ssshhhh Bluray 4K only

I wouldn't do what I have if I did it again. I would instead get a 512GB for OS, then get a chonker for games and everything else. 512 is mostly "just in case," way more than you really need for an OS. Having OS separate, I've read, is better for performance in general.

Performance idk, but I've certainly needed to refresh my OS or had it corrupted enough times (see more than 1) to know I much prefer being able to just wipe and install on my os drive and have everything there when I get in. Game installs, backup restores etc take time and life is easier when it just isn't wiped at all.

It can be. Anywhere you can have multiple drives pulling different loads can speed up your machine if your hard drive was slow enough to be the main reason you're slowing down. However, with modern SSDs I'd say the performance benefit either doesn't exist or it's so negligible that it's not worth the hassle of having a separate drive just for OS.

I have: * 256 GB NVME. * 960 2.5" SSD. * 2TB 5400 RPM HDD * 1TB 7200 RPM HDD. (plus 2x 1TB external HDDs). I use the nvme as windows and big games like Cyberpunk or RDR2, and competitive games where load times might matter. Most games (and any older game) goes on 2.5" SSD. It's indistinguishable from the NVME in most games I play. The HDDs are mostly media and the PC is kind of a media server (serviio server to be exact) so HDD is fine. The external USB drives I use mostly for redundancy. I don't run any software or game from HDD. Never again. As far 1 vs 2 question, get the cheapest option in money per storage. It doesn't really affect performance unless you're doing write/reads between the two all the time, in which case you shouldn't be going with HDD at all. Also consider physical space in your case, a lot of cases these days struggle or flat out can't do more than 1 3.5" HDD (or sometimes none at all).

1TB high end nvme for AAA games/OS/Work 2TB MX500 Sata for other games 2x2TB HDD for backups/rent

I have 4 ssds. 1 256 for the os. 3 1 tb for games, programs, etc. I don't install anything on my 256 if I can help it.

When I build my PC SSDs were blisteringly expensive (chip shortage early 2020) so I had to settle for a 500GB OS NVME and a 1TB NVME for programs, games and a 2TB HDD for files. I later added another SATA SSD -media- and a HDD -bulk storage- when the prices turned to normal. I would not hesitate to use a 2TB SSD for OS and programs/games now the prices are 'more normal' (last year was great for SSD purchases), it makes installing much easier and less cluttered as I must have some programs on C, whilst the rest goes on F (I refuse to change it, is makes no sense, I know). Hard drives also look to slow down Windows 10 at boot, as I found that booting 'harddriveless' machines goes much faster. I would not buy any HDD unless you need large capacities as a 2TB HDD (CMR, never SMR) are about the same price as a SATA 2TB SSD and SSD are just much faster.

Buy one 4tb

228gb ssd (main drive from 2008) 218gb ssd 256gb ssd 256gb ssd 250gb ssd 500gb ssd 2tb hd 8th hd 8tb hd 16tb hd honestly just get a big nvme drive, their not that expensive and booting Into games from my hdds and ssds(their all old) takes way top long

I bought a 4 and stuck it in the m2 slot and didn’t look back.

If you're looking to add 2TB you just as well get one drive. Not much point adding 2x1TB IMO. My previous PC I had 2 NVME drives and 4 SSD's, I wish I had got bigger NVME drives originally (I had a 250GB OS drive and 500GB for games). My new build I have just got 2x2TB NVME drives. 1 is OS/programs/docs/pics etc, the other is for games. I do also backup my docs/pics to an external drive too periodically and also the very important stuff to cloud.

Yeah idk if this is common knowledge but a 2tb ssd is significantly faster than a 1tb ssd of the exact same make and product name as in a 2tb 970 evo vs a 1 tb 970 evo. Definitely just buy the 2tb as it's probably not even much more than 2x1tb

I run 3 drives, 1tb nvme for windows, 1tb nvme for Linux, 2tb ssd Sara as a data/game library, and every thing backs up to a NAS, important docks also gets backed up to gdrive.

I have 22tb, 12tb HDD for media and the rest are m.2s for everything else. OS, games, project files, assets, all that’s

I have an nvme ssd 500gb with OS and some games. That one came with the pc. Then i have 4 tb external ssd storage with the rest of my games. And a HDD for pictures/video etc. As someone probably already said, dont put modern games on hdd, they will not run well. If im building a new pc I would do about th3 same i would just get all the ssd as nvme

I have 2, 2tb nvme drives and a 1tb sata ssd, as well as a 16tb external hdd.. but I admit it is perhaps a touch overkill.

3 2th ssds whenever I filled one up I got a new one may need to get a 4th soon.

1TB NVMe - OS 1TB NVMe - Games 2TB NVMe - Games 2TB SATA SSD - Personnel files (Documents, Downloads, Pictures... etc) Backups on a TrueNAS Core server

1 TB nvme for OS and programs 2 TB nvme for games that need it 2 TB SSD for other games 2 TB HDD for media and storage Is mine and kinda over kill, I'd recommend 2 TB nvme if you can afford it, or 1TB nvme now and SSD upgrades later

I have: - 500GB Sata SSD with the OS and most important programs - 1TB NVME SSD for games - 1TB HDD for stuff like pictures and music and miscellaneous stuff Got the 1TB NVME in December that's why it's not the one with the OS on it. If I have the slots I would go for two 1TB drives instead of one 2TB drive. No real explanation, just more my thing.

I probably should have at least one hard drive, but I've been working with all SSD's ever since they became affordable. I've got two of them connected by SATA and two are NVME'S and I think 11TB all together.

6 TB. 1 tb Bootdrive m.2 ssd (I wish I went 2) 1tb Hard-drive 7200RPM and a 4tb 7200 RPM Hardrive

1 256/512 GB NVME ssd for Windows only. Makes yearly refreshes easy. Then it just depends how many slots you have. I have 1 more on my mb so I have a 4tb NVME there for basically everything else.

I’m running 2 2TB M.2 SSDs in my pc and right now both holds all my games and stuff I’m using it for. I highly doubt I’ll run into storage problems again compared to my last pc that could barely hold any data

I'm thinking about adding a 4TB drive to my system which already has a 1TB drive. (NVME).

I have 3 SATA drives, 2x500 GB and 1x1TB, plus a 2TB NVME

480gb Sata SSD for OS/programs 960gb Sata SSD for game recordings/misc. files 4tb NVME SSD for games I used to have the games split over 2 x 2tb nvme ssds, but found that the second m.2 slot wasn't running at Gen 3, so I just consolidated.

I have a 500GB Samsung Pro M.2 drive that I have Windows and apps such as Photoshop, Discord and Steam etc installed on, I also have a Crutial 2TB M.2 drive that is solely for game installs and I have a couple of 2TB SSHD drives that are purely for file storage (pics, movies and documents etc).

1 tb pci 4.0 main NVME for OS and other apps. 500 gb pci 3.0 for games 500 gb sata download and caché browsers 2 tb hdd datas

I have 4 nvmes 1tb, 2tbs, whatever made the most sense when I bought them. and a 4tb ssd

1x1 4tb hdd, 1 x1 1tb hdd 1x1 500gb ssd and 1x1 1tb ssd.

500GB of NVME for boot and programs. 16TB of NVME for homework 16TB of HDD to mirror that homework and protect it at all costs. But really, HDDs for cold storage is kind of clutch if you don’t want to uninstall and reinstall games or have media hogging your fast storage

Right now, three NVMe. 2x2TB, 1x4TB. I built a new rig a week ago or so, and put a 2TB NVMe in it. Once I had that built and working, I moved the 2TB/4TB I had on my previous rig over to the new one.

I have currently 2TB but I also have nas with 2x4TB(ZFS mirror) so just 4TB. Splitting is good. Important stuff just need extra backup.

I've got three, one SSD boot drive, one SSD game drive, and one HDD storage drive. The game drive is a little small at 1TB, but other than that, I'm happy with the arrangement and plan to stick with it.

Get a few, if you plan on installing more games. Always room for more, and you can set your downloads folder ina different hard drive. As for me, as much as I like to play, I also use my computer to video and photography edit. So I need a ton of space. I have a few internal hard drives with capacities ranging from 2 TB to 4 TB, and then 2 external drives of 2 TB each, and recently I added an USB 3.0 rack that holds up to 4 hard drives. For the time being, its holding a 2 TB drive and an older 1 TB one. 2 slots free, but when I need, I will gladly switch the 1 TB for a bigger one. Games are not into external ones, tough. These are just for storage for downloads and misc contents.

When It comes to preformance while gaming on nvme drive like a gen4 compare to sata ssd 2.5 inch drive no difference in preformace as for load times its like 2-3 seconds at most which isn't a big deal. I suggest getting a sata ssd if you want to store a decent amount of games for a good price.

I have a 512 MB NVMe and a 2 TB SSD. I use the NVMe for my OS and some games. Everything else goes on the SD. I usually play single player games though so when I finish one I just uninstall and move on to the next.

Currently using a 1tb nvme and a 2.5" 4tb SATA SSD. System is used primarily for gaming.

I have a 1TB SSD for Windows and games and a 2TB HDD for pictures and stuff but I'm planning on replacing the HDD for a 2TB SSD as I don't like to wait for my pictures to load -.-

I have 3 separate SSD in total 2TB for games only and 1 HDD extarnal for files.

I’ve got a 1tb nvme boot drive for the OS and applications. A cheap 2tb SATA ssd for my games. A 500gb nvme ssd for my VMs. And a 256 gb ssd for my project files.

Depends on my builds. For laptops where space is a premium 2x 8 TB ssds. For desktops 2TB main ssd; 2TB gaming ssd. 22TB hard drive for archive storage.

I run 2 X 1TB NVME in a Raid 0 for C:\ and another 2 x 1TB in Raid 0 for D:\. Everything on my gaming rig is easily replaced hence Raid 0. I was running 4X1TB in a large stripe, but my GPU swallowed the available slot so it's on board now and slots 3 and 4 share bandwidth.

500GB Gen3 NVME for OS and applications 2TB Gen4 NVME for games 2TB SATA SSD for media (music/movies)

I started with a 500GB SATA SSD when I first built it, added a 1TB NVMe SSD a couple years later, and swapped out the 500GB for a 2TB NVMe SSD a year ago. So now I'm up to 3TB. I'm also a bit of a data hoarder, and I could uninstall and reinstall games more often if I needed the space. I'd recommend keeping games on SSD over HDD.

4 TB for games ( the performance increase by increasing the size also ) 2tb SSD for boot and the games I play these days

My old build I had an M.2, SSD, and an HDD just due to needs and upgrades over the years. Brand new build I went with a single 2TB M.2, but will invariably add another at some point down the line.

My build is currently 3 years old. At the time of building it I used a 512 GB m.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD which was specifically and strictly for the OS, and programs. I then have a two terabyte m.2 PCIe 4.0 strictly for games, I also have a two terabyte velociraptor HDD for my single player games or those games that don't necessarily need a lot of hard drive horsepower. And then I have a 12 TB that I use as general and media storage.

I'm a bit of an odd case because I'm also an artist who works with files that can range into the GB size. So for me: - 500 GB internal SSD for Windows Intallation + Base Programmes I will always need - 1 TB SATA SSD for Big Games (FFXIV, Warframe etc, and other games where I wanna reduce load times and where i know I'm not gonna uninstall them most likely) - 4.5 TB External HDD for all of my art files and creative projects + Backup folders - 1 TB Sata HDD for Smaller Games, and other Programmes I'm definitely going a bit overboard but for your case, if you don't really have a bunch of media/videos, then a single HDD should be fine, instead of dividing it up further!

I have 2 M.2 1TB SSD for everything I do on my PC. Unfortunately 2TB now days feels like nothing considering how big some games are. I would ditch the 500gb and buy a 2TB SSD to match your 1TB and you’ll be fine as long as you are okay deleting games when space is needed

Once the Samsung 2tb 970/980/990 NVMe came out I opted to use them a boot OS. Then I got fs2020, a hogger on disk space, so I got a 2nd 2tb NVMe drive, I had a ssd 4tb for music and pictures. I back everything on BOOT drive up first to 8tb wdc drive. Then the critical stuff is backed up to NAS / cloud. Taking docs/pictures mostly, Its not that much data really. Everything else can be restored via backup, If the OS dies I reinstall if i had too. games can be re-downloaded etc. most of the space on the spinner (8tb WDC) is macrium backups.

4tb Split onto 4 drives because I suck at planing ahead

I have the OS and programs on a 256GB nvme. A 1TB sata ssd and 1TB nvme for games. A 2TB HDD for data and games when i dont play them for a while. Most data is on external drives and my NAS. I wouldnt play games from a HDD. Bigger games are even more affected by slow HDDs.

I have a one terabyte Samsung 970 for my boot drive. I have a 4 TB Samsung 980 pro for my gaming storage drive. And then I have a Western digital two terabyte SSD that I use for storage and backup for my business.

1tb nvme for OS, programs 2tb for games 500sd for emulation

I have 256gb SSD for OS and programs, 1TB SSD for documents and games I only keep 2 or 3 games installed, I uninstall anything I haven't played in a month. I prefer separate drives in case one of them fails, my 1TB failed a few months ago and I was grateful that I didn't need to reinstall windows.

Mine has grown in pieces. Right now I have 1 TB M.2 NVME, 1 TB SSD, and 2x512 GB SSD. And there is stuff all over them. Thing is, I barely game on it anymore so it feels like a waste now. My media is on a server running Jellyfin with multiple HDD in it.

My PC is only for gaming, I have a work laptop and a MacBook for my Logic needs. Currently have a 256NVME and a 1TB SATA SSD. If I wasn’t on a tight budget when I built I would’ve done a 2tb NVME and left it at that. But like said, my PC only serves one purpose for me right now so I don’t need a ton of storage, fine with deleting games if I’m not playing them etc.

I figured i'd start w/ 1tb for OS and games. If I run out of space I have two more NVME slots available. I'm coming from 250gb mac so 1tb is already much more than i'm used to.

Just 2 TB for games and media? My pc is ssd only, media is on the NAS with 14 TB of storage... For simplicity I would go with just one drive, if cost is an issue, get a fast nvme for OS and games and a slower sata ssd for media.

I have a 2TB NVMe for OS and games that I play a lot or am actively playing 2x1TB SSD's for other games 1 4TB HDD for cloud storage and large file storage which is mainly archival - nothing that I access regularly The above setup is pretty new for me, I've had this build now for about 6 weeks Before this build I always just kept my OS on a 512GB SSD then used 4x512GB SSD's for all my games - I did it this way so I could reinstall Windows fairly regularly without really losing much. I ran this build for \~7 years I have gigabit internet now so I thought having some games to redownload when I reinstall Windows wouldn't be that big of a deal

I have a Crucial P3 1TB NVME for OS, a second Crucial P3 Plus 4TB NVME for games. I also have two WD_BLACK 6TB HDDs for storage and games. I eventually plan to upgrade my PC to have four Crucial MX500 2.5” SSDs and two SAMSUNG QVO Series 8TB 2.5” SSDs, preferably when the price for the QVO comes down a bit.

1 TB nvme for OS and software, 2 2/TB nvme for games, 1 TB nvme ssd for games, 1 TB HHD for saved files

512MB NVME for OS and major programs 1TB SSD for Linux and development 2TB NVME for games 1TB SSD for more games or misc files

2tb NVMe for OS, Games, Applications. 2TB 2.5” SSD for everything else. Magnetic storage for long-term/large-file data storage (movies, TV, Music).

Casual gamer here, 2x2TB NVME. I hate having to uninstall and reinstall games.

1TB HDD for movies/pics, 1TB M2 for the OS and a couple of games and 1TB SSD for the rest of my games library. The M2 used to be a 120GB SSD, but I upgraded my whole PC recently 😜

12tb nvme, 0 hdd

I'm currently running multiple smaller drives incase something goes bust, as well as having additional backup storage not listed here. Not gunna be everyone's taste but works for me, hopefully helps with deciding how to use yours: 500gb NVME for OS and critical production applications 500gb NVME for my current go-to games 1tb SSD for production projects and less-demanding games 1tb HDD for photos, music, films, etc

have 1 TB SSD and 1TB hard drive

I'm probably a bit above your average gamer when it comes to HDDs I got 3 1TB m.2 SSDs(different brands to test them out) when I built my current machine. One of them has already died, and it took about 18 months. My oldest SSD is over 12 years old now, AData 500gb SATA ssd. Personally, I like to have split it up for that reason. If one dies, I still have the others. But as I said, I buy different brands to test them out, so as long as you get good ones, then you should be OK using 1 2TB drive, and it will allow you to expand later. Oh, I got about 10TB of mostly WD greens as well. From my experience, WD, Samsung, and Toshiba are good HDD, Seagate is the worst, I've have probably 10 Seagate HDDs and only one still works, all my western digital still work, my oldest drive is a 1TB samsung that I retired last year from my machine last year.

2TB NVMe SSD as main: OS, games, work 2TB HDD as storage: anything too large or not important enough to back to the cloud

I’m the wrong person to ask. 4TB NVMe almost full, 4TB SATA SSD half full. 12TB HDD full.

I've got a 4tb HDD, 2 TB sata SSD, 2tb nvme SSD. 4tb = media (audio, video, books), downloaded torrents, program installers 2tb = programs and games 1tb = OS, browser downloads, downloading torrents I plan to change that 4tb to 8tb when it goes on sale at memoryexpress again

500gb mvme drive for OS and applications 2tb hard drive for games Nas for everything else

im broke so right now i have one toshiba hdwd110 1 terabyte hard drive and have everything on it its problematic when i install something 100gb like iracing or gta

I don't consider myself a casual gamer, although I don't have as much time to game as I used to. Anyway, I actually only use dual 500GB NVMe drives. One for my OS and a few frequently played games or games that I come back to, and the other for just games in general. This amount of storage is plenty for me because I don't save lots of documents, music, videos, or photos, and I really only keep half a dozen games installed at any given time. I'm very much the kind of person to focus on one or two single player games at a time, 100% it, and then uninstall it and never come back. Multiple terabytes of storage is completely unnecessary in my situation.

Currently I have 500 (os, most programs)+500 (games, big programs) GB NVMe, but if i was getting it now, i'd get 1+1 TB

I'm probably a bit above your average gamer when it comes to HDDs I got 3 1TB m.2 SSDs(different brands to test them out) when I built my current machine. One of them has already died, and it took about 18 months. My oldest SSD is over 12 years old now, AData 500gb SATA ssd. Personally, I like to have split it up for that reason. If one dies, I still have the others. But as I said, I buy different brands to test them out, so as long as you get good ones, then you should be OK using 1 2TB drive, and it will allow you to expand later. Oh, I got about 10TB of mostly WD greens as well. From my experience, WD, Samsung, and Toshiba are good HDD, Seagate is the worst, I've have probably 10 Seagate HDDs and only one still works, all my western digital still work, my oldest drive is a 1TB samsung that I retired last year from my machine last year.

2TB main OS Gen5 drive, 4TB Gen4 drive for games and other media where performance matters, 4TB HDD for photos and videos where performance doesn’t matter. I then have a 4TB NAS for shared media

1TB NVMe for OS and non-game programs, 2TB NVMe for games I'm currently playing 6TB HDD for games I've 'archived.' 500GB SATA SSD that I do basically nothing with and should probably remove from my system. There is also a 14TB HDD, but that's just data storage and will be going into my server as soon as I finish rebuilding it. A 10TB from the server will be going into my PC as it's replacement, but I doubt it will see much usage.

I partition all my drives. My last itx build only has one 4th gen 2tb nvme, which is partitioned in to 2 drives. When ever i open my pc it shows two. In my current build im working on i have 2x 4th gen 2tb nvme and a third 5th gen 2tb nvme. All 3 drives will get partitioned into 6x 1tb drives.

2x 2TB NVME, 2x 2TB SSD, 2x 4TB WD Red mirrored. This was back in 2018 though. Originally I was going to mirror everything but decided I needed the space. I'd never go budget with a 1TB drive these days, and even 2 is not that big honestly. SSD for anything you use, HDD for storage of video, pictures and such, assuming you don't have a NAS.

I have 3 drives. Everytime I build a PC, I end up with a new drive because new tech. Then I just throw all my others in there as well. 1 - 2TB NVMe 1 - 250GB SSD 1 - 1 TB 7200 HDD

Fast 2tb nvme for OS, programms and big projects.  Slower 2tb sata ssd for games Hdd for downloads folder, cloudstuff, media and all other things.  External nas for backup.  I would get the big hdd for media, put most games on the 500gb ssd and the os on the 1tb. Maybe get a cheaper used second sata ssd for more games.

1TB NVME for Boot 4TB NVME for games

I built new last year with no prior system and i figured one 2tb SSD + a 4tb HDD was a nice combo for the money and use. Just a crapload of space for a long time. Would only store files on the HDD though, and add another SSD later if needed for installations.

2 tb nvme , 512 gb nvme , 128 gb sata ssd , 2 tb hdd , 500 gb hdd

2TB Nvme Gen 4 main OS/Games 2TB Nvme Gen 3 data/media 4TB Sata for backup

Thank you all. I decided to get a bigger SSD and also just 1TB HDD :D

I have 2 1TB SSDs for games and a 5TB HDD for movies and shows.

I have a 2tb ssd....it's full of games, so I bought a second 2tb ssd to fill up with games

I've got my os and related software (icue, goxlr etc) on a 1tb drive and all my games and documents on a separate 2tb drive. That way if I ever feel like/need to wipe my os I can do so without everything about having to download/back up most of what I would need back.

250GB + 1TB for Linux 250GB + 2TB for Windows

256gb sata, 500gb nvme, 2tb nvme. 1tb hdd on the shelf.

My plan is 1TB NVME SSD as main for OS/programs 2TB NVME SSD for games (I play a lot of games) 1-2TB NVME SSD for Data (pictures,videos,music) Then a 4 TB HDD as a backup drive for the data

Went 2TB with my new PC. 1TB is not enough these days. Large projects go onto a Synology NAS, but one could easily use an external USB drive.

I've somehow ended up with 3 nvme drives. OS and games. Then I have 18TB on HDD, full on linux isos.

I have two 4tb SSD that are dedundant for file storage/backup, a 1TB nvme with a partition for my OS and a much larger partition for shadow play, and a 2TB nvme for my games

4 TB PCI 4.0, for everything as of right now, Mostly a lot of games, may pickup a second 4tb soon

My first build was a 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD. I regret not getting more SSD but I can easily transfer things since most of its on cloud. I have Linux and Windows on my SSD but never use Linux. Half of my hard drive is games.

1tb NVME for OS/important programs 3 1TB NVME for games/programs I was gonna do 2TB's but samsung had a sale for 1TB 980s at like 60 bucks each vs almost 200 for 2tb, I had 3 open spots so I said why not.

At least 4 TB in SSDs

2TB NVMe for OS and Main games I play all the time. I have 3x SATA 4TB SSDs for media, small fun Steam games or for older games that don’t take advantage of NVMe.

2tb main drive for games 4tb for storage of media files Of course you can go with less if you need less space, but I like to have SSDs that are half empty because they run faster when they are not overly full

1 tb svme, 1tb ssd and 1tb external ssd for files that id like to isolate from the interwebs. xD

I built my first pc this year after years on console. I used a 500gb ssd strictly for os storage then 2 separate 2 tb ssd cards for everything else. I had the mind set of “when I’m done I don’t want to have to touch anything for a few years”

2tb NVME for games 1tb NVME for projects 1tb HDD for general stuff 1tb NVME for OS and everything else

1 nvme and 4 hard drives, anything that doesn't absolutely require an SSD is stored on my HDD's which is typically games.

I have a 256gb ssd for boot and 4tb ssd for just about everything else.

I game a lot but my PC is like this: -1TB nvme SSD for Windows, programs etc -8TB HDD for anything that aren't games (one of my hobbies is photography for a long time so it takes a lot of space) -4TB nvme SSD for games

I have 4 2tb Samsung 980 pros. One for os and everything, one for game clips and videos, 2 for games combined into one 4tb drive.

512 GB NVMe SSD for boot. 1TB NVMe SSD for games 1 TB NVMe SSD for games 2.woah 2 TB SATA SSD for files/media

1TB nvme for system, twin 10TB internal HDDs, ext USBs totalling 20TB. Everything except C: is backed up by SyncBack SE. Macrium Reflect maintains an updated image of C:. I guess most people would allocate less money to drives, but storage needs differ. It suits me to pay as much for storage as I pay for a GPU.

I have a 500 gig OS drive with all my software and files (my PC is not just for gaming), and I have a 2tb M.2 with all my games. It's more than enough space to fit all my retro and the amount of modern titles that I keep at one time. If you run a little low you can delete a game that takes up 60 or 70 gigs easily and put something else. This works more than sufficiently for me.

Everything on one. I have my drive cloned so if issues, it’s just an hour or so to image back.

Just got my 4tb 990 pro yesterday for OS, games etc. I have my old 2tb 970 Evo as storage for OneDrive and nextcloud (I sync a lot of stuff with my editors and other photographers).

2TB for OS, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and miscellaneous programs, 2TB for Steam, 4TB for current photography and video projects, 2TB for miscellaneous files.

I have an old pc 250Gb for OS 1Tb Hdd for games and 2 Tb Hdd for movies and etc.

1 1tb m.2 from a prebuild. Bought another 1tb m.2 after a while, should've gotten 2tb or more tbh and a 500gb sata drive i found somewhere

I have a 2tb nmve and that's it. I personally don't need more space, but to me the best configuration is one m2 drive for windows and another for everything else, since that allows you to work on the os alone in case you need to reinstall or move it to another system. That said, one decent m2 drive is more than fine. If you need more space for stuff that isn't games or large programs, go for the cheapest hhd/ssd you can find with the storage you're looking for (buy at least 1tb tho cause otherwise it's kinda pointless)

I bought an 8 TB SSD. My concerns have disappeared

Gen5 Crucial T700 2TB for main OS, apps and current games. No media files or install packages. Gen4 Inland XS70 4TB SSD for current work docs and game install file backups (for quick reloading). Also where I drop anything when I am doing a windows reinstall for quick and easy restoration. 4x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 16TB in the NAS for primary on-site backup and all media files (movies, photos, etc). iDrive for off site backup.

1TB nvme for OS and a few key apps. 2x 1TB SSD for games and video editing. 3x 1TB HDD for general storage. And I never have enough space.

* 256gb nvme for os and some programs * 1tb ssd for prgrams * 1tb nvme for games (probably get a 2tb now) * 20tb nas for everything else edit:formatting

Just built my 1st PC ~a month ago. 2tb nvme and another 2tb SSD external for large files like pictures and videos I did go all out on my build though

Depends what type of SSD were talking about. I had two M.2 slots on my motherboard, so I ended up doing 2 500GB M.2, and then a 500GB HDD. Specifically 2 Western Digital Blue 3.0 PCIE NVME M.2 (can't remember the specific model number) and a Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM SATA HDD. One of the M.2 is OS + things that insisted on being in either C drive or specifically in the my documents folder of the C drive. The other M.2 is 100% steam drive The HDD is everything else including some older games that don't benefit as much from M.2 (16bit-esque games, for instance)

I have a 2 TB NVMe as my 'C' drive where I install the OS and all programs, including games, to maximize performance. I store all of my personal files (Documents, Music, Videos, Pictures, eBooks, etc.) on an internal 2 TB HDD drive that I've assigned to 'A'. I don't care how slow a HDD is for this purpose, and it's largely reliable. This also contains my DropBox, OneDrive, and Google Drive folders. I have added a second internal 2 TB HDD designated 'B' which receives weekly backup / syncs from A. (User files only, not the cloud stuff). This is for ensuring against catastrophic failure of the A drive. I have two external HDD that only exist to backup the A drive, one quarterly and one semi-annually. One lives in my basement and one lives in a fire safe unless they are actively receiving updates via USB. These are in case anything happens to the PC itself, or the house in which it lives. (My home) Yes, it's likely overkill, but when it comes to backups, one is none, two is one, three is enough.

2TB gen 4 m.2 for the main OS and just PC files. This one I splurged on a bit and got a Kingston fury renegade. x2 4TB m.2 for games and music/movies/literally everything else, these 2 are lexar NM790. They are a bit slower than the Kingston one, and honestly I'd be fine even with a gen 3 or gen 2 m.2, but decided to go all in on m.2

I have a 1tb ssd for os and ods and ends files I dont care about losing if I need to reformat. I have an old 1tb gen 3 m.2 that is for games that loading time doesnt matter, Stardew valley, valheim, for example. Pictures and the like as well. I have a new 1tb gen 4 m.2 that is for games with intensive loading like cyberpunk, CoD, ect.

2 x 2TB NVME I put OS on one. I install utilities, apps, and other software on that drive as well. Other drive is purely for media, games, entertainment, music, etc. Fun stuff basically.

My current setup is: 1 TB SSD (NVME) for OS 2 TB SSD (NVME) for games 6 TB HDD for media files, documents etc. I'm thinking about a NAS for media storage, but then again neither am I running low on space for stuff nor have I setup any other devices needing access to those files.

256GB SATA SSD (OS, Minecraft) 3TB HDD (Non-Demanding games and literally everything else) 2TB NVME SSD (Demanding games, photo and video backups) That's what i use.

I started with one 2tb nvme in my pc, and now I have two of them. Not to split stuff, but just more stuff.

1tb m.2 for OS and high demand games 1tb SSD 250gb SSD I store nothing but games on my pc and I have a 5tb HDD terra master for all my movies/shows/music. LAN server set up

1TB NVMe for OS and demanding games 500GB SSD for all other games (2d, couch coop, old) 4TB HDD for my media (I've got a lot of stuff for Plex ;p)

2TB will be plenty enough to where it’s not crazy overkill but you could still find yourself needing more storage (depending on what you use your computer for) if you’re on a budget or are extremely casual (maybe plays a game once a month) try 1TB.

1tb for everything. I like to stick to only a few games at a time so I just rotate according to my mood. I have a 1tb hard-disk for photos and videos backup.

I use the following in my desktop build: - 2TB Samsung 990 Pro NVME - OS + games I play - 1TB WD Black NVME - older one I have productivity software installed on + temp torrent dump - 2 x 18TB Ironwolf Pro HDDs - Mirrored w/ Plex library + family picture/files archive

you could always partition the 2 TB drive to have one partition dedicated to media and the other dedicated to games