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well even if you're not a pack rat running out of space on a pc is still an

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ever-present concern and even though a typical computer might ship with a

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thousand times more storage than what you would have gotten a couple decades

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ago i'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like it's never enough but with

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increasingly huge hard drives available on the market both under and

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overestimating just how much storage you need is pretty easy to do

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so how do you determine how much disk space is enough well as it turns out

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there really isn't a great universal baseline just like in our video on how

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fast of an internet connection you need which you can check out here the minimum

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amount of storage you should get is going to be heavily dependent on what

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you're normally filling your drive with for example let's say that you're a

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gamer with an ever-growing steam library with games becoming more and more

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complex especially on the visual side it's common for even simpler titles to

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require around a Gigabyte of space with bigger budget aaa games wanting 50 gigs

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or even more that means that if you've picked up or built a system with a

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rather standard one terabyte hard drive as few as about a dozen or so games can

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eat up half of your disk space right there so have a look at the games

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you've purchased or would like to have and tally up how much space you'll need

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based on what the game information page indicates if you need a decent starting

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point though two terabytes should be enough to store your games comfortably

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that is at least the ones you're likely to want to play right away without

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waiting for them to download again obviously though games aren't the only

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thing that can hog hard drive space if you store or work with videos on your

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pc a mere hour of compressed 1080p video

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can take up between 40 and 50 gigabytes

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of space at 30 frames per second while

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uncompressed video if you're shooting in some kind of raw format can actually

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take up around five times that much then you get to multiply those numbers

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again by four or five if you work with 4k video you can see just how quickly

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even a spacious hard drive can fill up for video editors so if you're saving

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run-of-the-mill compressed 1080p videos from your smartphone reserving a

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terabyte or four of space might actually be lots but for higher resolutions or

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working with uncompressed video in programs like adobe premiere you might

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need 4 or 5 terabytes or even a few 10

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terabyte drives depending on whether you actually edit video or you just want to

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use your pc as a storage repository now stills photography is a lot more

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forgiving raw image files shot at a high resolution of 20 or so megapixels will

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often take up around 20 megabytes each on your drive meaning that a terabyte is

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enough to store roughly 50 000 of these photos

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so yeah even for avid photographers a

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terabyte or two of reserved storage should be okay and it's possible to get

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away with less if you're okay with going back and pruning the bad tigs now if

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you're just saving compressed jpeg images that friends and family send you

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these take up much less space so storage is far less

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of a concern another piece of good news is that if

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you do find yourself needing several extra terabytes of storage hard drive

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prices are always dropping so we usually

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recommend that you buy only what you need and then expand as you go

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