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> 500mb To 5gb How Big Is A Game?, how many games can u git on ur HDD!?
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post Apr 7 2005, 09:37 PM
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About to upgrade my hard drive and i have a 40Gb one from my old PC... do i need a bigger one or will that do?
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how big is a game?

and how many games can you store on a 40Gb/80Gb/120Gb/160Gb etc...
thanks everyone
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post Apr 7 2005, 09:40 PM
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Depends on the game. They average from 1.5 to 4.5 GB
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post Apr 7 2005, 09:41 PM
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anyway to tell which are gonna be big? some examples?
appreciate your help.
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post Apr 7 2005, 09:49 PM
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games like Halo 2 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory are large (around 5 gig)

You can get Splinter Cell from around 5.36 gig to a small 2.9gig (around abouts) though
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Probably the average game size is around 2.5gb, so divide the hdd size by 2.5 for a rough estimate.
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post Apr 7 2005, 10:03 PM
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i got 24 on my 80gig HDD
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post Apr 7 2005, 10:21 PM
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Take the size of your hard drive, subtract about 10Gb due to partitioning, then divide that by about 2.5Gb (about average size per game) to figure out how many games will fit on that drive.

Example:
80Gb - 10Gb = 70Gb usable
70Gb / 2.5 = 28 games

The number will vary since older games are generally smaller and newer games are larger.
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Don't forget...HDs are advertised with base 10 values. 250G HD really only has 233G of space to start with. Subtract the 8G off that for the C,E,X,Y,Z drives as well. Then divide by 2.5 or whatever you think. I find 2G to be a fairly common average with deletions.
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