downloading everything

[noah]

if i were to download every game on every system on the hyperlist how many terabytes of space would i need for my laptop? i wanted to know this so i could get the right hard drive for it my computer has 1.30 TB to use 

[wallmachine]

All zipped about 12 TB

All extracted about 24 TB

 

Happy hunting. 

[Spawk]

I would also advise against using a laptop. They are just not meant to be used for hours on end. Guess that depends on your playing habits though... not to mention that without a video card you wont be able to play alot of those tb's. In any case if your gonna do this, do it right and get a dedicated desktop.

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[noah]

12 hours ago, wallmachine said:

All zipped about 12 TB

All extracted about 24 TB

 

Happy hunting. 

so a hard drive with at least 36 TB of space?

[alcoatjez]

Your games can remain zipped, so 12TB will be enough.

[noah]

14 minutes ago, alcoatjez said:

Your games can remain zipped, so 12TB will be enough.

ok but what does zipped mean?

[justinwebb]

42 minutes ago, noah said:

so a hard drive with at least 36 TB of space?

Yeah that doesn’t exist, you will need multiple drives which won’t fit in a laptop. 

[alcoatjez]

9 minutes ago, noah said:

ok but what does zipped mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)

[Kondorito]

My recommendation is to not get only one for everything; if for some reason it fails you will lose everything. The ideal setup to me would be a couple of drives, and if possible, a backup of them (on or offline).  

[justinwebb]

Just now, Kondorito said:

My recommendation is to not get only one for everything; if for some reason it fails you will lose everything. The ideal setup to me would be a couple of drives, and if possible, a backup of them (on or offline).  

I agree, I run my arcade files on a server that is 20 tb with dual parity drives. I don’t want to have to redo anything if I lose a drive.

[Fizen]

i'd suggest that once you have everything you want run a cleaner over the mame roms, theres so much crap in some of the zips that you can basically half the size of the set. 

For example my mame set is 1050 roms total size including the CHD's for what I have is 14GB