A ton of games to have installed all at the same time, yes absolutely it is. Invest in a better ISP if that's the problem. That's money better spent imo than on 18TB so you can keep old games installed and not play them.
That is a lot of game
Downloading cause bandwidth unfortunately.
Raid-Z2-NAS: 6TB used/9TB available
HTPC (Mosty recorded OTA programs):6TB
Photo/Video editing machine: 3TB Raid-1
Main workstation: about 1TB SSDA ton of games to have installed all at the same time, yes absolutely it is. Invest in a better ISP if that's the problem. That's money better spent imo than on 18TB so you can keep old games installed and not play them.
An ISP is not something you "invest in". You take what they'll give you. Not everyone is lucky enough to have an ISP that offers unlimited. I consider myself lucky as mine has no caps and they brought in fibre recently but not everyone is that lucky.
Good ISP or not, it makes no sense to uninstall and reinstall games all the time just to save on disk space, when you can simply get more disk space.
An ISP is not something you "invest in". You take what they'll give you. Not everyone is lucky enough to have an ISP that offers unlimited. I consider myself lucky as mine has no caps and they brought in fibre recently but not everyone is that lucky.
Good ISP or not, it makes no sense to uninstall and reinstall games all the time just to save on disk space, when you can simply get more disk space.
But at what cost? Both financially and performance as hdd is significantly cheaper than ssd especially at capacities of 18tb as op states. 18tb of ssd is going to cost a lot more than a 1 tb ssd plus the extra per month for unlimited bandwidth for a year or two.
I take your point but if he is gaming then performance of the games should factor as well.
First of all no way does OP need 18tb just for games. That's just crazy talk. Like I said earlier you should be able to install a ton of them just on a 1TB drive.
Second of all, games run and play just fine from a normal hard drive. No SSD needed. If it loads a few seconds behind a SSD i'm plenty good with that.
That too game that total to 86 GB for TWO GAMES! That is almost 1/10 of 1TB to give you an idea.
If you want to install all of your Steam, Amazon, and GOG library, then it more than 18 TB. For example, I installed Witcher 3 (50 GB) and BioShock Infinite Complete (36 gb). That too game that total to 86 GB for TWO GAMES! That is almost 1/10 of 1TB to give you an idea.