On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 21:06:59 -0600, PW <
P...@noemailaddress.com> wrote:
>I am running out of room. PC Gamer and Max PC in their build machines
>always say that a 1TB is plenty big enough for all your Steam games.
Here's a hint: you don't have to keep all your games installed all the
time. The games remain in your Steam library even if they aren't on
your hard-drive. After all, it is unlikely you will be playing all
your games at the same time. You will be amazed at how many Steam
games you can own if you don't insist on installing them all to disk
first ;-)
That said, I'm a bit spoiled these days by fast internet. Just a few
years ago, I was still on dog-slow DSL and downloading games required
a lot of planning; some larger titles might require DAYS to install.
Because of this, I downloaded all my games, then immediately backed
them up to an external hard-drive; that way if I ever needed to
reinstall, I could skip the lengthy download. These days, it's almost
always faster for me just to download the game than pull it off the
external drive (which either says something about my internet
connection or the speed of my external drives). Plus, modern games
have become so large that - were I to archive them all - I'd need to
buy a new external HDD every few months. Nonetheless, I still archive
many of the smaller titles; you never know when the internet will go
tits up.
Nonetheless, I don't keep that many games installed at any one time.
There's a few* that never leave my HDD, of course; Minecraft, Doom,
Eutrotruck Simulator 2 - always ready to provide me with a quick fix.
But those games I round up in my monthly "what have you played
threads"? Uninstalled almost as soon as I finish them. Why waste
hard-drive space on a game I'm not likely to replay any time soon?
* Well, "a few" if you only include the games listed above. If you add
in my Ultimate DOS Games Collection, that number balloons up to over
1000 games... but that's largely because I consider the DOS Games as a
single game, and because it took such a long time to configure all of
them to run happily together. So I will conveniently exclude them from
my list, happily ignoring the facts just to make my point ;-)