System drive: 1TB
Use case: Very important stuff like drivers etc. or programs that refuse to use anything besides C:\ or put their stuff into AppData.

Gamedrive: 4TB.
use case: Roms, game launchers, emulator files.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

For my main machine: Sys, 1TB. Games, 4TB (actually 2x 2TB in raid0). Backups and misc: 10TB. Daily backups, g/f/s for sys, and incremental daily with monthly full for games.

Then I have all my media and actual files on a nas, along with the desktop, documents, downloads synced between all machines; any files that are for storage and drive images (for machines with only 1 drive and cannot manage images locally) get stored here too. 2x 10TB.

Then those drives are in raid1, are under btrfs with snapshot abilities, are backed up to a 8TB external every month, and unplugged after a successful backup to avoid a ransomware attack scenario. This drive is actively cooled to prevent overheating with hours of read/write activity. Every night, critical files are also backed up to two different off-site data storage services, on different continents.

I got tired of data loss 15 years ago, and now I horde everything, but it's all for a purpose. Game saves, stories, photos, archived projects long forgotten, and so much more.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok, why do you have 1TB sys drive?

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That was my previous game drive, and I had a small ssd (I think 256GB).

E: to clarify, I went from sata to nvme, and the sata ssd is now in another machine. The drive that came out of that machine is 480GB and is now powering a Debian 12 server.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Makes sense.