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Actually, the only thing I don't have a backup of is my OS drive. I am not worried about my games since many are on Steam, Origin, and the ones that are not I have hard copies of. Same goes for the software I don't want to loose. So if a drive fails, I don't loose much, just a pain to reinstall it all on a new drive. I also have 2 external USB enclosures, both have 320GB IDE drives in them, that I use for disk images, ROM's, media, and things of that nature. So I have backups of all of that as well.

Once prices drop back down to more realistic levels, I may look into RAID. Just not something I want to get into at the moment considering the cost and time.

Yeah, I have well over 400GB of games, both on Steam and off. It sounds so bad when you put it like that. haha

Considering the space many modern games take up, it adds up fast. Just doing a quick calculation, I have a little over 600GB worth of games installed at the moment, with more I have not yet had time to install (and probably wont for a while).

That's 96 games (I think, quick count). Not including all the source ports, emulators, ROM's, and mods.

Dear lord that really does sound bad. haha

I can't possibly play that much, obviously, but I like to play what I want to play when I want to play it. I don't want to have to wait on an install if I decide I want to play something on a whim, hence why I have so much installed at once. I have always been that way. Problem is, that these days, the installs are getting larger and larger. heh
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Posted Feb 17, 12 · OP
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I have about the same amount on steam
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Found 100 Games with a value of
$1440.01 USD

then about 100GB off. Just in storage not installed. You being a video game collector and all I thought you was implying you had 4000GB of games which would be believable since I just buy a lot of games on sale lol. But yea whenever your ready to make the jump I'll show you what I've seen other people do. I mess around with RAID and crap like that.
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You will be the first person I talk too when I go play with RAID. lol

Yeah, just did a full count, I have 768GB of games installed at the moment. Steam says I have 201 games, but I am not sure how to view their total value. heh

I have many more than are not on Steam, and about a dozen on Origin. Being a "collector" does indeed take up a lot of space. =(
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Lol wow man. I have a 1 tb secondary drive in the comp (SSD for primary 120gb) and im burning through this is fraps recordings very fast.
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Capt_GhostRyder wrote:
Lol wow man. I have a 1 tb secondary drive in the comp (SSD for primary 120gb) and im burning through this is fraps recordings very fast.

Yeah I think its like 4GB for 3 - 5 mins of 1080p video if I remember correctly. You gotta get that sh*t encoded so you can store it for later projects haha. :)
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