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ourmiseries

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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Momo1991

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

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Azzaboi

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

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Lense

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

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snowleopard1024

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.

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snowleopard1024

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 ...

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Alteria

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

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Carenard

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

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Keenzor

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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Jonex

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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JoeyBeanz

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

I don't understand the question

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BashfulBoogeyman

hah :|

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HIV

SHIIIIIIIIIT! Nice :P

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Argeus

Where is your 'Games' drive? xD

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JoeyBeanz

C and F

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o0scottyd0o

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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snowleopard1024

Seconded - that game is so addictive.

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chour

"Simple, yet effective" solution.

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madnessnewb

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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o0scottyd0o

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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ELMAAA

2 TB. I never run out of diskspace :D

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m1ck3ykn0x

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

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Neorevo

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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ELMAAA

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

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Neorevo

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

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Jonex

How cute.

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Chiasm

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 :(

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Milan22

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

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Chiasm

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

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LilaGeist

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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sokie

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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o0scottyd0o

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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robschia

Keep only the games I want to play.

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sokie

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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KaiserTroll

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.

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2kwik4u

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

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NB264

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

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Mallorn

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

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Ri0Rdian

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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D0D0

happens to me everyday :(

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Matt211

500 gig is enough for me...fuck me right?

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InJ3cTiOn

Basically.

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Creambanana

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

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PlayfulKaitie

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

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DoJu

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 11 years ago by ourmiseries.