Western Digital is one of the most trusted names in storage. It makes some of the absolute 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best SSDs for gaming on the market and has a strong range of NVMe, External SSDs, and HDD devices. Back in February, I 𝕴received a press release telling me that WD would be releasing its largest-ever capacity HDD for consumers. 

Immediately becoming the highest capacity drive WD has ever produced, the new My Book Duo Desktop Hard Drive has a sickening 44TB capacity. The 22TB My Book, which we deem to be up there with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best external hard drives on the market, was launched back in July of 2022, but thisᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ is quite the leap forward.

I have to admit, a press release with a fully caps-locked title will catch my eye on a bad day, but this one was quite something𝓰: "WESTERN DIGITAL BRINGS MILESTONE CAPACITY TO EVERYDAY CONSUMERS AS DATA CREATION CONTINUES TO SOAR".

I was intrigued. Not only would they be expanding the size of their already gargantuaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn 22TB drive, but they would be doubling it.

The press release continued, with quotes from the research vice president at Global DataSphere at International Data Corporation, John Rydning, who said “While many people re🦩ly🐻 on the cloud, we know consumers are looking for local storage at their fingertips to help them preserve and readily control their growing amount of personal and business data.”

He has a point. I can't tell you the number of times Google has sent me a very urgent-seeming emai🅺l to inform me I'm running out of space on my personal account. Years and years of phone photos, emails, files, and downloads rack up some serious space, after all. 

“With mu𓂃ltiple devices used in our everyday life, we have the ability to instantly create, consume and generate massive amounts of conteꦫnt,” said Susan Park, Vice President of product management at WD. "Our goal is to help people easily and reliably store it all."

In fairness, she is absolutely right. But still, I can't help but finꩵd this hilarious. I can only applaud WD for creating something which I'm sure must have been pitched in a product meeting and immediately met with a couple of rye smiles and nods of approval. 44TB is a terrifying prospect! 

"Think of the number of games you could fit on that", I said to one of my colleagues. "Thaꦇt's probably the entire Game Pass lღibrary", they responded.

Being the editor in charge of all things storage at GamesRadar, my interest was well and truly piqued. Here I was thinking 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:2023 could bring about t🎉he death of HDD 🐽storage. So, I decided to find out just how ma🌼ny games 4👍4TB would really hold. 

I took to Googl😼e. "How many GB is the entire Game Pass library", I searched.&ꦿnbsp;

No luck. 

The last time someone properly added up the gigabytes was back in 2019🍨, and Game Pass has grown exponentially since then. 

So, to the off﷽icial Xbox Game P🌠ass website I went. Surely they had it on record somewhere?

Nothing. No "required storage for installation" specifications on each𒁏 game's retail page. Indeed, if I was going to find the answers I wanted, I would have to get my hands dirty. I've got a journalism degree, this could be my Woodward and Bernstein moment, I thought, comically. 

So here we are, what feels like years later. I scoured the internet to search through every game on Xbox Game Pass (at this specific time of writing) to find each one's required installation space. I added it ꦆall up (all 460 titles that are listed), and found that altogether, the library only comes to a measly 10.289 Terrabytes. ⭕;

That means the following. If you were to purchase one of WD's 44TB My Book Duos for , and spent probably a month downloading everything - you could fit the entire Xbox Game Pass Library on it and you'd still only have used up abo🌠ut a quarter of its space. Even the 22TB model could fit the library more than once. 

Eꦐssentially, nobody at all, not even the deepest data miners, not the biggest hoarders of digital games, could ever possibly need that much storage space. But I have to admit, it's the only storage device you'd maybe ever need to be set for life. For now, I'll make do with a couple of 1TB drives at a time.