Posted December 22, 2021
Initially my GoG Classics folder was just for games like Quake and Doom and Blood, Shadow Warrior, Unreal etc. Kind of classic FPS theme based, but the demands on expanding it to include other games grew, as I needed to store more games or find space on an existing drive for new games in existing series.
So eventually I settled on year as the qualifier, and that kept creeping up until the year 2001, though I haven't yet relocated everything from 2001 ... probably most though. I can see that eventually becoming 2002 and so on. I guess by most standards, games that are 20 years old are now in the class of golden oldies or classics.
I think I started off with a few 1 TB drives, then that increased to 2 TB then 3 TB and now I even have a 5TB portable drive used for games. By the time that drive came online though, I'd already split to categories, and so decided to leave it that way. My intention initially was to have at least one drive with all my GOG games on it in alphanumeric sub-folders, but the large 4 TB powered portable drive I had been using, got too full, and while I considered going 6 or 8 TB, in the end, two more 4 TB drives was significantly cheaper. Also by that point, I'd gotten fed up with relocating game folders a lot, even though I was doing that in a semi-automated way with MD5 checking.
Sometimes it felt like I was forever relocating and backing up game folders, even now. One of my most recent purchases at GOG, is Metro Exodus - Gold Edition, which comes in at a whopping 147 Gb ... half of that being the Enhanced Edition version. Backing that up to 4 drives using USB 2 ain't real fast ... not to mention it took a good while to fully download first and MD5 check. It becomes even more painful, when I try to use my download PC for other things on the web.
So eventually I settled on year as the qualifier, and that kept creeping up until the year 2001, though I haven't yet relocated everything from 2001 ... probably most though. I can see that eventually becoming 2002 and so on. I guess by most standards, games that are 20 years old are now in the class of golden oldies or classics.
I think I started off with a few 1 TB drives, then that increased to 2 TB then 3 TB and now I even have a 5TB portable drive used for games. By the time that drive came online though, I'd already split to categories, and so decided to leave it that way. My intention initially was to have at least one drive with all my GOG games on it in alphanumeric sub-folders, but the large 4 TB powered portable drive I had been using, got too full, and while I considered going 6 or 8 TB, in the end, two more 4 TB drives was significantly cheaper. Also by that point, I'd gotten fed up with relocating game folders a lot, even though I was doing that in a semi-automated way with MD5 checking.
Sometimes it felt like I was forever relocating and backing up game folders, even now. One of my most recent purchases at GOG, is Metro Exodus - Gold Edition, which comes in at a whopping 147 Gb ... half of that being the Enhanced Edition version. Backing that up to 4 drives using USB 2 ain't real fast ... not to mention it took a good while to fully download first and MD5 check. It becomes even more painful, when I try to use my download PC for other things on the web.
