Storing Lots Of Games

[bibblebub]

Since I got unlimited-download broadband in May, my collection of PC games has grown to over 300GB total size. In the last couple of days I've increased the size of partition on which I have all of them installed to 500GB (they are all on one drive using junctions rather than re-installing), but sometime in the future I'm going to run out of disc space.

I feel reluctant to uninstall any substantial games, especially those that I've paid for, so how do you manage a lot of games? Do you just cold-heartedly uninstall those that you haven't played for a long time or have completed, or is there some way to store them all so that they are readily accessible despite the limited space on a hard drive?

[hc4361]

Get an external hard drive, they're cheap enough.

[SlackAlice]

I added a separate internal HDD of 1TB. Whenever I install a new game/program that's were they all go.

The main drive (SSD) contains my Windows installation and stores My Documents/Pictures/Videos/Music

[Aquariel]

I use Steam and Origin, and I've bought several hundred games which would probably be well over 500 GB. I don't think it's practical to download them all and have them all installed ready - they're usually just taking up valuable space for other stuff. It's probably better to just install the ones you want to play, then uninstall them once completed. This might not apply to online multiplayer games where you might dip in and out regularly over months or even years (COD, Battlefield, WOW etc.), so you may want to keep those installed.

If you really want to have them all installed, then maybe invest in a 4TB hard drive! Some new games can easily be 30 GB or more so it will fill up quickly if you buy them regularly.

[bibblebub]

Thanks for the replies. I do have an external 500GB hard drive that I use for backing up the games partition (and a couple of others for multiple backups of everything else).