And i am wondering what do people even fill their storage with, and why do they need so much. In my case it is ~200-300 out of 1TB on 2 laptops, 37 out of 128gb on phone. And i don't even actively manage it.

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throw2ih020 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I have one single video game I play that takes up around 650GB, so I have a dedicated drive for it. And between 1 and 2 TB of movies, TV, and photos. Everything else is ephemeral/scratch space for whatever I'm working on.

I used to be into amateur movie making and editing, and back then I needed many TB of space for the stuff I pulled off my cameras before it got edited down.

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RugnirViking a day ago | parent [-]

What video game!? I've seen games that reach up to the already crazy number of 100gb, but I usually just don't install those, with few exceptions

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		One of the popular flight simulators. Earth terrain data takes up a huge amount of space.
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msh a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My photo library is around 700 gb.

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pjmlp a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Photos, movies, MP3, SDKs for various kinds of systems, PDFs (and PS) of computing papers collected during the last 35 years, and naturally games.

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efilife a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have 2TB filled and I need more. I make music so I need a lot of storage for my instruments and samples. This is measured in tens and often hundreds of gigabytes. I also play games. Games' sizes range wildly from 10 to 200 GBs. I also do gamedev. The textures get big and get duplicated between projects. Programming (npm modules for example), add to this personal data, media archives and 2TB is not enough