I just bought Van Helsing this morning cause I thought it looked kinda cool, attempting to install it and realize its 20 gigs. Say to myself "Not a big deal". Realize I have 25 gigs left on my HDD. mfw.jpg
Has this happened to anyone else, How do you cope with limited HDD space, I wish I could download all the things.

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Um, I have two words for you "external drive" ;-p

1 decade ago
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Black Edition 2-4TB HDD + 64GB SSD caching... Why would you run out of space?

1 decade ago
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I clear space using WinDirStat (it might look old but it works better and has nicer visualizations than anything else I've found) and steamcleaner

1 decade ago
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I personally use TreeSize Free over WinDirStat, but they're both good programs. Also just be aware of the main limitation of steamcleaner:

`Steam will automatically download games's redistributable packages again in two cases:

  • Steam has detected an update for the game.
  • You have used the VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE... functionality on a game.`

There are more advanced options available (such as keeping one of each redist file in a cache somewhere and hardlinking them back to each folder), or simply deleting and reinstalling games as you play them.

1 decade ago
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I know how you feel. I have a crazy sized library and only 400Gb on my games drive. I think I need to buy a new laptop ...

1 decade ago
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Oh my, was expecting the game to be around 7GB only ._.

1 decade ago
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how I cope.. have a 4TB harddrive.. when 1.5+TB of anime, and my ENTIRE steam library installed on it >>

1 decade ago
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Ya, anime is spacekiller. And I do not want to delete it, since some of the stuff is hard to come by in decent quality.

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It hasn't happened to me because I've bought more than enough space for all of my games to be installed lol.

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...How do you cope with limited HDD space...

I don't understand the question

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hah :|

1 decade ago
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SHIIIIIIIIIT! Nice :P

1 decade ago
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Where is your 'Games' drive? xD

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C and F

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simple solution...

1) buy dark souls (doesn't matter if you already own it... buy it again)

2) install dark souls

3) never play another game ever...

this was successful for me

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Seconded - that game is so addictive.

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"Simple, yet effective" solution.

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Heh. Finished it for the first time yesterday. Was tempted to keep playing New Game+ but have other games to play too. :D

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you miss the best part then... the NG+ content is where it gets challenging because you can no longer tank bosses and you have to rely on actually dodging and parrying. at about NG4+ you must be pro-dodger extraordinaire as bosses can 1-hit you with specific attacks... I got tired of NG6+ so now im doing challenge run throughs (earlier today i completed a no melee run of every boss and i am now currently working on setting up a run being crystal-weapons only on a NG+ character, if i run out of weapons than that is gonna suck XD)

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2 TB. I never run out of diskspace :D

1 decade ago
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I just bought a 2 TB drive about 2 months ago. It's already almost full -_-

1 decade ago
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only 2 tb? thats just 1/3 my storage space drives with my os on a sdd an external ssd and 60 gb ssd dedicated as a steam games library for games i want the performance on

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i forgot to say, im not a freak :D
btw its 2 TB build in + another 1 TB external

1 decade ago
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my rig still fits in a normal mid sized case.. not that freaky just dotn have a littered front 5 1/2 bays full of stuff i wont use

1 decade ago
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How cute.

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I had to delete my 1 TB "Dogs in cute hats" folder last time it happened to me. My mental health never fully recovered after that :(

1 decade ago
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Don't worry man you will find more pictures and videos of dogs in cute hats here you go, for start

1 decade ago
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1 down, 43,000,000 to go. Thanks %)

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You can buy a 2tb (2000 gbs) internal harddrive from Microcenter or their website for $89 dollars. Thats what I did. Its retarded to run your pc on maxed memory. Its bad for your harddrive.

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Unless you defragment frequently and keep atleast 10% free space, it DOES put some strain on the hdd.Lots of files means lots of moving trough millions of data to get you what you need,means keeping the buffer almost always full and it even puts more strain on your cpu as well.

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It does slow down performance on a HDD drive as the way they read/write information is on sectors of a magnetic disc (which is why you never rub magnets over hard-drives as it moves the disc out of alignment). however, on a solid-state drive (SSD), the use of flash-BUS storage systems (similar to how it is stored on a USB thumb-drive but smaller and more connections to increase bandwidth capabilities), files are searched for through a non-physical device (e,g, through small I/O switch mechanisms), meaning the performance will not be affected depending on how close to maximum capacity you are at.

This also explains why you are unable to setup RAID-1 and RAID-0 drives using Hard Disc Drives as they do not feature the switch mechanism to quickly move data between the two hard drives

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Keep only the games I want to play.

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I have two harddisks, one for windows and programs and the second for games and stuff like movies or other things.
A rule a thumb I use is not keeping anything on the hard disk that can be downloaded in less than 2 hours, or that I don't see myself using in the next months.

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160 Go HDD, it happens to me all the time. That way i'm forced to concentrate on a game instead of starting too many concurrently.

1 decade ago
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I bought a 2TB external hard driver for 100$ and store everything other than games on there.

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Happened a lot to me until I got dedicated 1 Tb HDD for games (steam/desura/gog/mmo/origin/uplay).

1 decade ago
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Happened to me once, but that was a decade ago ;)

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Classic! I always tell my friends, no matter how good your PC is, the first thing you will be missing won't be performance but disk space :)

I myself solved this by having almost 5 TB of space spread over 4 HDDs. Since then, I always have some space free ( I love collecting movies :D ).

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happens to me everyday :(

1 decade ago
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500 gig is enough for me...fuck me right?

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Basically.

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Yeah well I have a 300gb HDD and I've 148GB left.

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I have 37.1GB HDD. And you are complaining about free space...

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I always have about 60-100gb left, and I try and delete the single player games I complete to maintain that.

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Closed 1 decade ago by ourmiseries.