You don't have to have TBs of data for Steam to fill up a drive. Since most of the games nowadays run in to the multi-gigabyte range, just a few games will very quickly eat up all of your space.
Even if each game were 25 GBs, which is way overestimating most games, it would still take ~35 games to fill up a TB drive if that was it's sole purpose. Perhaps if you never uninstall any game, ever, you could do that.
I have allot of Steam content that I don't actively have installed because I am not playing those titles. Still even with a fair amount of restraint I have around 400 GB of data on my primary system drive.
I also have quite a few games that I don't have installed but I also don't have that much data with the games that I do. My windows/program drive is a 300GB raptor, w/ about 40 GBs free right now (got to 5GBs then I cleared off some programs and a ripped movie or two). I suppose it is possible, just not probable.
i know this is just completely off topic now, but how the heck have i never heard of Steam before?? not gonna lie, pretty damn excited and tempted to d/l the id software pack. i've played all the Dooms, but always wanted to try Quake, Wolfenstein, and Hexen/Heretic. i love the old cheesy FPS's. if only they had Duke Nukem...
ok, i'm back with now another issue (unrelated to topic at this point, but I thought I'd keep the train of problems in one thread )
Keep in mind i've never had any experience with replaceing HDD's before. I got my new HDD in yesterday and connected it to the computer. I ran Setup at start to make sure it found it. Under the SATA 0, it had the description and storage capacity listed. So the computer loads and of course finds no bootable. I insert the Dell Recovery CD (with Windows XP) and it starts up. I choose to install Windows and it gives me the option of the new drive to install to. I choose it and it says it needs to format the partition. After about 40 minutes of formatting, it never moved from 0%, and the "active" like stopped blinking, along with no noise from the HDD. After about another 5 minutes of this, I restart the computer. Now, it's not even finding the HDD, and when I try to run the CD again, it freezes at the screen that asks me if I want to install windows. Under the BIOS Setup, it now says capacity is unknown, and SATA 0 is listed as (Device is not avtive). I hooked my old drive for good measure, and it has no problem reading it.
yes, just trying to get XP on it, which is what came with the comp. my previous HDD was SATA and it worked on it. aside from a driver issue, the computer isn't even recognizing the drive now.
yup, nothing. like i said, i retried my bad HDD, that this whole topic was created for, and the BIOS recognized it and everything, so the cables are fine. if the mobo was bad, it wouldn't recognize any HDD, correct? im just wondering if its possible this new HDD already went bad? i mean, theres no "special" way of installing a HDD right? just plug and go?
Grrr. Yeah, my roommates friend was in town and he looked at it, said it was a bad HDD. He goes through Newegg too and says hes had the DOA problem from time to time too. Let's wait and see if the replacement works...thanks Tushon.
just checking in...got the HDD replaced and it's working fine...so far! actually typing this from my old computer! just wanted to say thanks again you guys!
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Keep in mind i've never had any experience with replaceing HDD's before. I got my new HDD in yesterday and connected it to the computer. I ran Setup at start to make sure it found it. Under the SATA 0, it had the description and storage capacity listed. So the computer loads and of course finds no bootable. I insert the Dell Recovery CD (with Windows XP) and it starts up. I choose to install Windows and it gives me the option of the new drive to install to. I choose it and it says it needs to format the partition. After about 40 minutes of formatting, it never moved from 0%, and the "active" like stopped blinking, along with no noise from the HDD. After about another 5 minutes of this, I restart the computer. Now, it's not even finding the HDD, and when I try to run the CD again, it freezes at the screen that asks me if I want to install windows. Under the BIOS Setup, it now says capacity is unknown, and SATA 0 is listed as (Device is not avtive). I hooked my old drive for good measure, and it has no problem reading it.
...whats happened??