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[trueanimus]

3 hours ago, -McFly- said:

1.2M titles, but they're not all strictly games. I've included cheats, videos and manuals as well so... probably about 800-900k games maybe? I haven't got a lot of the 'bigger' games like XBOX, Playstation etc. so my total storage is around 30+TB. 60TB is a lot of space for less than 100k games, I'm guessing you've chosen more recent systems?

damn man... do you even sleep ?   lol    nice work

[KRI$85]

On 4/25/2025 at 7:43 AM, -McFly- said:

Last Update I think, I'm not finding many more to add so I'm calling it done. Maybe not forever, but for now.

🤯OMFG What a CRAZY BEAST COLLECTION, ffff yeaaaaaaaa is also planning, but I'm aiming for at least 100TB. I'd like to have the largest collection of games, movies, music, etc.  
Are you planning to record an update on your YT channel with the current collection💪

As someone with the largest collection, could you offer some advice:
1. What HDDs and SSDs do you use, recommend, and what about RAID? It's the same here?

2. Do you keep media manuals, movies, and games on separate HDDs and SSDs?
- Your collection a whole or is it broken down into smaller ones? I mean, as we know, LB-BB can't handle a very large collection and you have a huge one and people wrote on the forum that it's best to break the collection down into parts?

3. Cache
- How did you build the cache? Did you leave it in attract mode and let it build, or what?
- Could you tell me how many GB it takes up when building the cache? I'd like to be prepared. 😋
Do you keep the cache on the SSD or HDD?

Launchbox is known to prefer SSDs, so I suspect you have LB-BB on the SSD, newer games on the SSD, and retro games, etc., on the HDD?

That's all for now. 

I was going to ask in a private message, but maybe I'm not the only one who would like to know.

Ps:

Thanks for sharing the files.
1 Peta is waiting hehe.

[trueanimus]

is there any way to run gamewave disks/roms    i see you have it listed but i didint think there was an emulator for those yet

 

[-McFly-]

1 hour ago, trueanimus said:

is there any way to run gamewave disks/roms    i see you have it listed but i didint think there was an emulator for those yet

 

I'm not using this, but it might be useful to you? https://nytric.com/clients-zapit-games/ I have several systems that don't have working emulators yet, I have everything queued up for when they arrive and work well.

[-McFly-]

On 8/27/2025 at 7:13 PM, KRI$85 said:

🤯OMFG What a CRAZY BEAST COLLECTION, ffff yeaaaaaaaa is also planning, but I'm aiming for at least 100TB. I'd like to have the largest collection of games, movies, music, etc.  
Are you planning to record an update on your YT channel with the current collection💪 - No, I just don't have the time.

As someone with the largest collection, could you offer some advice:
1. What HDDs and SSDs do you use, recommend, and what about RAID? It's the same here? - I use SSD for the C:\ drive, 3x hard drives in a soft RAID using Stablebit Drivepool. They all 'appear' as 1 drive (E:\ in my case) in explorer. No specific brand of HDD, they all die eventually.

2. Do you keep media manuals, movies, and games on separate HDDs and SSDs?
- Your collection a whole or is it broken down into smaller ones? I mean, as we know, LB-BB can't handle a very large collection and you have a huge one and people wrote on the forum that it's best to break the collection down into parts? - Yes, they are broken down onto other drives but not included in the E:\ drive as I keep that strictly for games only with symlinks where needed. Same drives though, just outside the 'poolpart' folder.

3. Cache
- How did you build the cache? Did you leave it in attract mode and let it build, or what?
- Could you tell me how many GB it takes up when building the cache? I'd like to be prepared. 😋
Do you keep the cache on the SSD or HDD? - I tried keeping the cache updated but every time I scan a system it wipes the cache so I gave up. Attract mode is useful but it's pretty useless at caching everything - all platforms would take forever to be guaranteed complete. It's on the E:\ drive also. I did have it on the SSD for a while but it got far too large for that.

Launchbox is known to prefer SSDs, so I suspect you have LB-BB on the SSD, newer games on the SSD, and retro games, etc., on the HDD? - I only have LB/BB on the SSD currently. Everything else in the RAID.

That's all for now. 

I was going to ask in a private message, but maybe I'm not the only one who would like to know.

Ps:

Thanks for sharing the files.
1 Peta is waiting hehe.

I'll add that my system needs 32GB memory and an i7 processor that's less than 2 years old. It used to work fine on a lower spec PC but somewhere along the road it started choking.... I don't have a separate video card either, just the one that's built in (it does have a couple of monitor outputs which is nice). I rarely have everything in the Data\Platforms folder, so it only loads the specific platforms I actually want to look at or play that I drop in there. Anything more than 400k titles seems to be the breakpoint, at least for me.

My collection has evolved over 8 years or so. Don't rush it, it'll be better in the end if you take your time and do everything the way you want it first time, without having to go back and 'tweak' anything. 

Best of luck with your build, and keep us updated here?