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General discussionDo you back-up all of your games or just your favourites?(79 posts)(79 posts)
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Posted February 11, 2025
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timppu: E.g. Western Digital MyBook (an external USB hard drive), they go up to 24TB.
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Cavalary: Duos even up to 44 TB
Yeah I guess, I try to limit myself to "single HDD" solutions, not those more massive ones apparently containing several hard drives inside them.

If you go that route, I guess one should think of investing into some RAID closure or such, but it is not that cost effective anymore for mere archival purposes where most of the time the storage is not in active or daily use, but powered down. Something simple and as cheap as possible per GB.
Posted February 12, 2025
Only 24TB? When will us plebs get some juicy petabyte drives? :D

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timppu: It is odd though those 2.5" USB hard drives haven't grown in capacity over the years, they are still selling those same max 5TB drives that I bought several years ago already... Maybe it is the external SSD drives where the evolution is now, but then there you pay more per GB and the extra speed of SSD is not that useful when you just want several terabytes to easily keep your stuff archived. Plus SSD might not be that good for longtime offline archives either, they need to be powered up every now and then in order not to lose data.
That's why I store my stuff on pocket external HDDs with decent transfer rates, SSD is just too pricey for such and needs power.
Posted February 12, 2025
Recently did a first ever full backup on a brand new 4 TB SSD drive (thanks gogrepoc). My current collection filled about 80% of its capacity. But as it expands quite slowly these days, if's probably going to take me a while to fill the rest.
Post edited February 12, 2025 by idbeholdME
Posted February 12, 2025
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idbeholdME: Recently did a first ever full backup on a brand new 4 TB SSD drive (thanks gogrepoc). My current collection filled about 80% of its capacity. But as it expands quite slowly these days, if's probably going to take me a while to fill the rest.
Mine is around half full, mainly because I don't have as many newer (100GB+) games. Shouldn't have to update for awhile also unless some game dev is like "Let's make this supah awesum game with 8K, it'll ONLY weigh in at 750GB!".
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