well even if you're not a pack rat running out of space on a pc is still an
ever-present concern and even though a typical computer might ship with a
thousand times more storage than what you would have gotten a couple decades
ago i'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like it's never enough but with
increasingly huge hard drives available on the market both under and
overestimating just how much storage you need is pretty easy to do
so how do you determine how much disk space is enough well as it turns out
there really isn't a great universal baseline just like in our video on how
fast of an internet connection you need which you can check out here the minimum
amount of storage you should get is going to be heavily dependent on what
you're normally filling your drive with for example let's say that you're a
gamer with an ever-growing steam library with games becoming more and more
complex especially on the visual side it's common for even simpler titles to
require around a Gigabyte of space with bigger budget aaa games wanting 50 gigs
or even more that means that if you've picked up or built a system with a
rather standard one terabyte hard drive as few as about a dozen or so games can
eat up half of your disk space right there so have a look at the games
you've purchased or would like to have and tally up how much space you'll need
based on what the game information page indicates if you need a decent starting
point though two terabytes should be enough to store your games comfortably
that is at least the ones you're likely to want to play right away without
waiting for them to download again obviously though games aren't the only
thing that can hog hard drive space if you store or work with videos on your
pc a mere hour of compressed 1080p video
can take up between 40 and 50 gigabytes
of space at 30 frames per second while
uncompressed video if you're shooting in some kind of raw format can actually
take up around five times that much then you get to multiply those numbers
again by four or five if you work with 4k video you can see just how quickly
even a spacious hard drive can fill up for video editors so if you're saving
run-of-the-mill compressed 1080p videos from your smartphone reserving a
terabyte or four of space might actually be lots but for higher resolutions or
working with uncompressed video in programs like adobe premiere you might
need 4 or 5 terabytes or even a few 10
terabyte drives depending on whether you actually edit video or you just want to
use your pc as a storage repository now stills photography is a lot more
forgiving raw image files shot at a high resolution of 20 or so megapixels will
often take up around 20 megabytes each on your drive meaning that a terabyte is
enough to store roughly 50 000 of these photos
so yeah even for avid photographers a
terabyte or two of reserved storage should be okay and it's possible to get
away with less if you're okay with going back and pruning the bad tigs now if
you're just saving compressed jpeg images that friends and family send you
these take up much less space so storage is far less
of a concern another piece of good news is that if
you do find yourself needing several extra terabytes of storage hard drive
prices are always dropping so we usually
recommend that you buy only what you need and then expand as you go
hopefully this was helpful and happy hard drive shopping we're gonna have
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