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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago

The reason why HL3 is not out yet is because valve is waiting for consumer adoption of 10TB drives

[–] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

1.82 GB out of 160 GB and they are worried. Imagine how they feel now with 500 gb and 1 TB drives with some AAA games being 250 GB.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (8 children)

We'll have petabyte drives for $50 before HL3 appears.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Reminds me of the time I had checked my TF2 folder after IDK how many years of playing, and the folder was like 500GB because of temp cached files not being deleted.

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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I remember buying a 100MB hard drive and thinking how hard it was going to be to use all the space. It really was...

Times have changed.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh that poor innocent soul. They must not have been old enough to remember needing boot disks because your 90s jalopy couldn't handle Warcraft or Myst.

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