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Remember when we could get cheap second drives? Those were the days.
a 500gb hard drive is like $30 thats nothing.
hehe, true. I'd just buy a used one off ebay. It doesn't have to be a good drive really as it's not going to have critical data on it. People don't want them because the drives are old and could fail, but for this would literally just be windows and an online game so I'd take the risk of the inconvenience of having to replace it in a year. Any data lost can just be re-downloaded onto a new drive. E.g. I found a bunch of second hand SSDs for £30-£40 on a quick search now. Wouldn't touch them for data storage but for this - why not?
A small drive off if amazon used might be good, easy to exchange. I did that when filling up my server back then. Got a few duds and was easy enough to ask for a swap