Decent Hard Drive Size For Gaming

Stoic Sentinel · 08-26-2009, 03:13 AM

I'm wondering what is a decent hard drive size for gaming? Would 500 GB be enough, more than enough, or too little?

Fatback · 08-26-2009, 03:29 AM

For just installing games a 250GB to 320GB would be more then plenty depending on what kind and how many games but seeing how the price doesn't go up to much from say a 320GB to a 500GB is only like an extra $5-$10 newegg has a 1TB western digital on sale for $75 free shipping.

Droogie · 08-26-2009, 03:49 AM

might as well go with 500GB or even 1TB as mentioned above. there's no reason to go any lower, unless of course you're looking for high speed performance (10,000 RPM, solid-state). but standard 7200 RPM is more than enough.

**Cromewell** · 08-26-2009, 05:18 PM

I used a 120GB for everything up until it failed (couple weeks ago) and it was more than big enough. As fatback said, 500GB drives are really cheap though so you might as well go with one.

konsole · 08-26-2009, 09:16 PM

well lets put it this way, I have Farcry 2 and it says it needs 12gb space. So how many games as large as Farcry 2 are you going to have installed? A 200gb hard drive would be more then enough for a handful of large games and a handful of medium size games with a decent amount of room left for other misc large files. 300-500gb is plenty. You could get away with 100-150gb hard drive and just uninstall the games you dont use anymore.

Twist86 · 08-26-2009, 09:32 PM

The price deference between 250gb-500GB its better to go 500GB. I mean for $8 more you can get 250GB more space....that is a great deal. Plus if you install music+games+porn you can max out a 250GB drive.

If your a seagate fan check out my HDD in my sig. Its the new .12 drives and it was $56.99 on Newegg.

It doubled my old 320GB .10 drive in burst AND transfer speeds its also on 1 platter which IMO makes it faster and also less things to fail you.

Stoic Sentinel · 08-26-2009, 10:40 PM

Lolz, thanks, from what I'm judging from the current responses, I've decided to get a 500 GB Hard Drive, thanks.

Springy182 · 08-31-2009, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twist86

The price deference between 250gb-500GB its better to go 500GB. I mean for $8 more you can get 250GB more space....that is a great deal. Plus if you install music+games+porn you can max out a 250GB drive.

If your a seagate fan check out my HDD in my sig. Its the new .12 drives and it was $56.99 on Newegg.

It doubled my old 320GB .10 drive in burst AND transfer speeds its also on 1 platter which IMO makes it faster and also less things to fail you.

Shh, I dont think porn's kosher to talk about

On topic: I ran out of space on my 160GB IDE drive so I split up a 500GB SATA drive for Windows and have 200GB for my OS/games, it depends very much on the person and if it's a dedicated drive for your OS/programs/games or also for whatever else you want to store on your system

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Originally Posted by linkin93

Hey, just a reminder: games that say they need 12gb of space really only use 4-6gb. I found this out with far cry 2 and crysis. They really only use about 5gb on your drive, the rest of the space is recommended for save files and virtual memory. Hell, my 80gb WD drive has every game i want on it.

Grand Theft Auto IV states 16GB required and 18GB recommended, and used about 14GB for me, that's fairly spot on all things considered

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Originally Posted by porlean

A 500gb hard is more than you'll ever need for games, matter of fact the hard drive shouldnt be your main concern when it comes to gaming. Processor performance and the amount of RAM should be at the top of your list

Actually hard drive speed is a fairly decent factor, my 500GB IDE does about 60MB/s read average and my 500GB SATA does around 95MB/s read average, the SATA one is much faster than my 160GB IDE which is about 60MB/s read average and pretty much everything is faster, HDD speed is very often overlooked if the capacity is sufficient. And RAM's a non issue considering a 4GB kit is ~50-60$ USD and more than that needs a 64 bit OS..

Stoic Sentinel · 08-26-2009, 10:43 PM

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StrangleHold · 08-27-2009, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stoic Sentinel

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08-26-2009, 03:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
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08-26-2009, 03:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
Fatback Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Kannapolis, NC Age: 18 Posts: 2,533	For just installing games a 250GB to 320GB would be more then plenty depending on what kind and how many games but seeing how the price doesn't go up to much from say a 320GB to a 500GB is only like an extra $5-$10 newegg has a 1TB western digital on sale for $75 free shipping. __________________ Display: 40" Polaroid LCD TV Mobo: ASUS M4A78-EM CPU:AMD Phenom X3 8650 @2.6Ghz RAM: 4GB OCZ Blade Series @908Mhz GPU: XFX HD 4850 512MB PSU: 400w Corsair HDD: OS:250GB Seagate 7200.10/Storage:WD Caviar Blue 320GB OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit/Linux Ubuntu 32bit Fatback Definition

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Droogie Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Connecticut, USA Age: 19 Posts: 3,673	might as well go with 500GB or even 1TB as mentioned above. there's no reason to go any lower, unless of course you're looking for high speed performance (10,000 RPM, solid-state). but standard 7200 RPM is more than enough. __________________ formerly tknick90 [Asus P5N-D] [Q6700] [9800 GTX] [4GB DDR2 800] [Antec 900] [Windows 7 Professional]

08-26-2009, 05:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 26 Posts: 11,804	I used a 120GB for everything up until it failed (couple weeks ago) and it was more than big enough. As fatback said, 500GB drives are really cheap though so you might as well go with one. __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in command here. www.userfriendly.org

08-26-2009, 09:16 PM	#5 (permalink)
konsole Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 622	well lets put it this way, I have Farcry 2 and it says it needs 12gb space. So how many games as large as Farcry 2 are you going to have installed? A 200gb hard drive would be more then enough for a handful of large games and a handful of medium size games with a decent amount of room left for other misc large files. 300-500gb is plenty. You could get away with 100-150gb hard drive and just uninstall the games you dont use anymore. __________________ Asrock p45turbotwins2000 C2D E8400 @3.6ghz 4gb ddr2-800 Diamond HD 4870 1gb Vista Home Basic

08-26-2009, 09:32 PM	#6 (permalink)
Twist86 Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Missouri Age: 23 Posts: 2,331	The price deference between 250gb-500GB its better to go 500GB. I mean for $8 more you can get 250GB more space....that is a great deal. Plus if you install music+games+porn you can max out a 250GB drive. If your a seagate fan check out my HDD in my sig. Its the new .12 drives and it was $56.99 on Newegg. It doubled my old 320GB .10 drive in burst AND transfer speeds its also on 1 platter which IMO makes it faster and also less things to fail you. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 400x8- 3.2ghz / XFX GTX 260 868mb 192 Core 2x2GB G-skill PC6400 DDR2 800 / Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 (rev. 1.0) / TX750w Corsair PSU Antec 900 Case / 1680x1050 Acer X223W 22'' Logitech S-220 Speakers / Windows 7 Ultimate x64

08-26-2009, 10:40 PM	#7 (permalink)
Stoic Sentinel Platinum Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Coral Springs, FL Age: 13 Posts: 598	Lolz, thanks, from what I'm judging from the current responses, I've decided to get a 500 GB Hard Drive, thanks.

08-26-2009, 10:43 PM	#9 (permalink)
Stoic Sentinel Platinum Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Coral Springs, FL Age: 13 Posts: 598	I've decided on this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152181 hard drive.

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