Did I go overkill on storage?

[xXCrossfireXx]

Hey, I got a 5 TB hard drive, and a 1 TB SSD for my rig. It's going to be a video editing computer, and gaming computer. My question is did I go overkill on storage?

 

[R_1]

no such thing my friend. no such thing.
now quit bragging! haha

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

no such thing my friend. no such thing.
now quit bragging! haha

lawl nice hope it lasts me well into the future

 

[USAFRet]

Hey, I got a 5 TB hard drive, and a 1 TB SSD for my rig. It's going to be a video editing computer, and gaming computer. My question is did I go overkill on storage?

Well...my main PC has ~1.5TB of SSD and 3TB of HDD.
My htpc/house server has 13+TB drive space.

So no. You did not go overboard.
Unless you think you did.

The real question is...what are you actually doing with that space?

 

[rcald2000]

@ R_1, I was thinking the same thing:

"no such thing my friend. no such thing."

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

Hey, I got a 5 TB hard drive, and a 1 TB SSD for my rig. It's going to be a video editing computer, and gaming computer. My question is did I go overkill on storage?

Well...my main PC has ~1.5TB of SSD and 3TB of HDD.
My htpc/house server has 13+TB drive space.

So no. You did not go overboard.
Unless you think you did.

The real question is...what are you actually doing with that space?

Well, I will tell you definitely not making a server xP. But I definitely will self host in the future, not with my rig I'm building though, this is my first. But yeah, I was gonna get 4 TB for future use, then I saw 5 TB was 20 bucks more, so I had a hell yea moment. Btw how much did that SSD cost you?

 

[nitrium]

It's only ever overkill if you don't use it. If you find your drives are <50% full ALL of the time, then "yes" it was clearly overkill and you could saved yourself a bunch of $$$ by buying less. Only you can know how much storage you need on a day to day basis.

 

[USAFRet]

Btw how much did that SSD cost you?

That 1.5TB is actually a combination of 4.
250GB - OS and applications
250GB - photo work
960GB - games and other stuff
120GB - ex OS drive