how much storage do you actually need from an SSD for modern tasks, is 256GB ok?
>>108095326picrel is still not enough
>>108095351I don't intend on playing video games made after 2016 anon, the desktop I am looking at has 16GB of RAM.
>>108095397Bloated games is not a recent thing. The PS3 is almost 20 years old and used blurays. 256gb is absolutely not enough unless you're exclusively going to be running tiny indie games on your machine.
>>108095425512GB?
>>108095326yea 256gb is good for an OS. What I do is run a small and fast SSD for Linux and Windows then I run a giant slow 4tb HDD for storage and just transfer over to the SSD whatever im actively using. Then I have 3 or 4 backups drives that have copies of everything in case of a failure but thats irrelevent.
>>108095727this was what I had in mind anon, I'm trying to think about what wouldn't be able to install on it, sometimes people say, it's 256GB but the OS takes up 30GB anyway.
>>108095351>have money for a 4090>buy the worst possible 3rd party brand
>>108095326enough to store all files you might want to access on regular basis. i dont want to wait for the hdd to spin up or keep them spinning continuously as they are now the loudest part of my system.
>>108095692It'd what I'd go with. Its considerable more than twice as much useable space since windows and various applications you'll inevitable install will eat up half the 256gb drive.
>>108095326I use a 1TB Kingston NVME SSD for my main OS where I got windows and majority of my programs, and the games I'm currently actively playing installed. And it's imo the perfect size if you are fine balancing with other drives for storage, if you asked me a few years back I'd say even 500GB is great, but there are some games and mods nowadays that realistically with like 2-3 games installed you could end up maxing it out. Go for a 1TB main NVME SSD, then pair it up with a drive or two of HDD, you can go for 1TB HDD or if you got money go for 2TB or 4TB as well. I personally have, a 1TB HDD and then a 1TB SATA SSD and use those two to store media, backups, vidya installers, etc. but I'm not really a hoarder so I don't need that much space.
>>108095865I used to be a hoarder, more with physical things, but also bad folder management, it's taking a long time, but I'm spending an hour a day trying to get my external 4TB down to about 2TB.
>>108095326Windows 11 + $MFT + shadow copies + ESP/system/reserved/recovery partitions + recycle bin prealloc + program caches + %TMP% + driver caches (especially large with Nvidia graphics) is already pushing 100 GB before you've even started using your computer for anything. Since you need to keep your SSD under 50% usage to not get runaway usage and write amplification, you should consider anything with only 256 GB of storage to essentially be a thin client. Truly horrific but that's what H1Bs, AI, and hardware cost-cutting get you.
>>108095326Anon only my porn folder is 450GB on my 995GB hard drive.
>>108095326dont say ok my win11 system takes around 31GB
>>108095326Honest answer, suprisingly little most nons would be fine with about 10-20TB BUT some of that would have to be raid, maybe 1/3rd. The local minimum should be 500GB in a laptop and 500-2TB in a desktop.So why 10-20TBWell disk imagesMP3 Music archiveYoutube MP4 archivePDF book archiveDriver/OS/Bios/Firmware archiveProductivity application archivesDevelopment tools and librariesVirtual machines8/16 bit game archivesUtility databaseKnowledge offline wikipedia/briticannica/medical/encarta whateverAssuming the average /g/ anon wants the followingwin XP machine x2Win 7 machine x2Win 10 Machine x2SUSE machine x2A windows server A Unix box like HPUX or SunPlus legacy consoles like PS2/360sAs well as maybe 16 an 8 bit computersAs little as 15TB would leave you a pretty good setup. Offline storage will be disouraged by end users and phased out, to force more normies to use and pay for cloud so it's really time to get it donne now. For decades hard drives have got bigger all the way from 5MB to 6TB now that has halted or even gone into reverse, 256GB or even 64GB 'portal machines' designed to make you a cloud slave.This is all assuming you have the brain to be preparing an offlined LAN right now, since this is a tech board that should be true of most of you if you want autonomy or personal digital soverignty. So OP teh answer in your case is 10-20TB BUT about 5-6TB as RAID. 515/500GB is fine for a laptop, mainly because high capacity SD flash cards are available ( and you should have one with your disk image on it).Some anons will disagree and I get it, some people will need 40-60TB, some 10-20 but most will be 10-20TB.
>>108095351There is something I really don't understand about tryingt o cram all your computing needs in one box hanging off one PSU creating a single point of failure. Aside from local LLMs there is very little that requires the compute and storage to be cocentrated in one box (yes I know about brainlet youtube grifters video editing nonsnse but let's get real here). Even if you concentrate CPU and RAM in one box (fine, ok) WHY OH WHY would you concentrate storage in one box at least 50% should be on a LAN disk array. I mean I built fuckhuge servers for a living for a decade absolute monsters that cost millions and the storage for those was not local as ide from the bare metal server but on fibre channel connected dual controller, dual psiu redundant disk arrays. What you are doing makes no sense. Are you working on large models? Even worse are you running those drives in one box as raid 1?
>>108097428got laicence for that cat5 lan?
