Is a 320 GB hard drive enough to hold games?

[bacon4life]

I'm building my first gaming pc, and the plan WAS to have a SSD as a boot drive and a 1TB hard drive from my current computer for everything else.

Well the plan changed, I was digging around in my basement and found my dads old desktop that he never uses anymore, and that has a 320 Seagate hard drive.

My questions is, is 320 GB big enough to hold games and only games (besides having Steam and Origin on it too) and I'll still use my 1TB hard drive for everything else and a SSD as a boot drive.

Or is it too small? I don't have tons of games yet, but as time goes on I'm thinking I'll have a pretty big library of games.

Thanks!

 

[giantbucket]

i'm a very casual gamer, and with Steam's sales i have 500G of games... so yeah, i'd say stick with the 1TB. use the 320G for an OS backup / system image.

 

[sizzling]

Depends on the games. Some of the latest AAA games are 50Gb+ before add ons but older games can be a fraction of that

Advanced Warfare with all DLC is 77Gb on my machine

 

[bacon4life]

Depends on the games. Some of the latest AAA games are 50Gb+ before add ons but older games can be a fraction of that

Advanced Warfare with all DLC is 77Gb on my machine

Thanks for your answer! Do you think a 1 TB Black Hard drive would be worth it for the games? I don't know how long hard drives last and mine is 5 years old

 

[giantbucket]

WD Black? buying new or reusing existing? i wouldn't bother buying one unless it's a 2.5" since the Black is 7200rpm (which is less common in 2.5" sizes). if it's buying new, i'd go for the basic seagate 7200.15 or whatever the current .xx number is.

 

[bacon4life]

WD Black? buying new or reusing existing? i wouldn't bother buying one unless it's a 2.5" since the Black is 7200rpm (which is less common in 2.5" sizes). if it's buying new, i'd go for the basic seagate 7200.15 or whatever the current .xx number is.

Okay thanks!

 

[ERIC J]

listen do yourself a HUGE FAVOR and go SSD and not a HDD
trust me i learned the hard way!
IF you like to game a SSD is just about a must in your PC!

 

[bacon4life]

listen do yourself a HUGE FAVOR and go SSD and not a HDD
trust me i learned the hard way!
IF you like to game a SSD is just about a must in your PC!

I would if I could, but my budget doesn't allow me at the moment. Maybe in the future

 

[ERIC J]

listen do yourself a HUGE FAVOR and go SSD and not a HDD
trust me i learned the hard way!
IF you like to game a SSD is just about a must in your PC!

I would if I could, but my budget doesn't allow me at the moment. Maybe in the future

I totally understand and that why i did not get one right away either.
these days the price is much better though a 500G samsung EVO 850(one of the very best) is as low as $160 online.

 

[bacon4life]

listen do yourself a HUGE FAVOR and go SSD and not a HDD
trust me i learned the hard way!
IF you like to game a SSD is just about a must in your PC!

I would if I could, but my budget doesn't allow me at the moment. Maybe in the future

I totally understand and that why i did not get one right away either.
these days the price is much better though a 500G samsung EVO 850(one of the very best) is as low as $160 online.

Thanks! I'll look into that, maybe I can squeeze a little more room.