Daiyus
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Toshiba X300 5TB HDD. I had to sell my last high capacity HDD last year when my car went bang. I’ve been slumming it with whatever I can find regarding mass storage as my focus has been on getting the family laptop, HTPC and my gaming rig tooled up with SSD boot drives.
I’m one of those people that likes to have the vast majority of my gaming library available at a moment’s notice. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up on consoles and so had every game I owned to hand instantly, or I’m just so used to game sizes expanding faster than my download speeds can keep up. Either way I find it very frustrating when I have a “don’t know what to play” moment and realise that to download some of the options will take anywhere from six hours to three days depending on the game and how heavily I’m having to throttle it to make sure the rest of the house can still use the internet. I’m cheekily getting this shipped to work where we have a dedicated line which will probably allow me to set my downloads running tomorrow leave it over the weekend, and have my entire Windows library ready to take home on Monday.
The plan is start dual-booting Linux so I’ll probably use ~4TB for my Windows library and the other ~1TB for Linux games. That should leave plenty of room to accommodate more games as I buy them over the next few years. I’ll buy a 1TB SSD at some point as well which will take the pressure off having to get any more mass storage solutions too soon.
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