Has anybody with 128GB Filled up your Storage?

[PowrDroid]

Has anyone with 128GB of storage on their phone ever used up all of it?

I'm eyeing a Pixel 9 Pro XL with 128GB storage. Through a promotion with US Mobile, my current cell provider, I can get a new 9 Pro XL for $699, but it is "only" 128GB of storage. (Also only available in black.)

I am still using my Pixel 5a with 128GB of storage and after almost 4 years it still has 62.9GB free space available.

I don't store much music on my phone. I do take a fair amount of photos but not many videos. I don't download podcasts to my phone (and even if I did, I'd listen to them and delete.) I might take more 4K videos with the 9 Pro XL.

I have the 9 Pro XL page on Amazon bookmarked and I regularly look at the Google store for price specials. The 128GB sometimes gets down to $899 and the 256GB gets down to $999 (black). I have seen the 9 Pro XL 256GB in Hazel for $949.

If it were a simple matter of $100 more to get the 256GB I probably just do it. But when I can get a 128GB for $699 instead of $999 for the 256GB, I'm leaning toward the $300 savings with the 128GB.

Thoughts?

 

[B. Diddy]

I've never really gone past 50% full. I'm all in with Google Drive, Google Photos, and streaming services like YouTube Music.

 

[AnnDroid]

I agreed with your logic. However, I've always been the kind of person that likes to have a reserve. I'm at 98 GB. I got the phone in December (256 GB). Let us know what you had end up with.
Edit, also when you go to trade it in the difference between the two sizes was only like 50 bucks.

 

[gomezz]

I have 128GB+256GB on my phone and currently using 200GB. Could get away with 256GB but cannot imagine how I would manage with only 128GB. Mostly made up of the FLAC version of my own music library along with a healthy supply of downloaded podcasts to listen to while out on the road traveling through patchy mobile data coverage areas so cloud/streaming is not really a viable option.

(one option I have considered is to keep this phone purely as my media player if and when I get a new phone which has a good deal on the 128GB version)

 

[straygator7]

I bought the 512GB Pixel 9 Pro XL because I keep all my photos on the phone, including thousands from our annual trips to Europe. Presently, I'm using 220GB, which is 43% of my available storage.

 

[YankInDaSouth]

I'm the same as @B. Diddy. Eventually these manufacturers beat me down and after the death of the SD Card and I went all in with cloud storage and services. Google One + YouTube Premium equates to very little need for onboard storage. Currently using 46 GB of 128 GB (36%) on my 9 Pro XL.

 

[bkeaver]

I bought the 512GB Pixel 9 Pro XL because I keep all my photos on the phone, including thousands from our annual trips to Europe. Presently, I'm using 220GB, which is 43% of my available storage.

Hopefully you at least back them up because if not you are one bad update from losing them all..

 

[bkeaver]

To each their own, and this is just my opinion but, in this day and age I think it's incredibly not wise to keep everything exclusively on your phone and extremely cumbersome to, if you do, perform regular backups. Because we all know that life gets busy and oops something happens and you just lost everything from you last backup till now. This is why I rely personally of auto backups to an loud service and not keep any on my physical phone.
Not to mention the one time my phone gets stolen or lost.

Again just my opinion and might not align with your thoughts or views

 

[straygator7]

I keep my photos (and all other files) backed up on multiple media -- a second laptop, several large capacity USB thumb drives that I update regularly, and a Google One account with 2TB of storage. The reason I retain the photos on my phone is probably outdated now, but years ago when we traveled, there were places where no Internet service was available, and I wanted to be able to share my photos with friends we made along the way. The only easy and reliable way to do that was to have them accessible on the phone.

 

[mgbosshogg]

Release day 9 Pro.

256Gb version. 128 shouldn't be anywhere near a £1000 device in 2024.

I am at 100Gb but have already cleared out every photo a couple of months ago as I have 2Tb Google One.

Coming into holiday time I will fill it back up again before replacement in a few months.

Doesn't really answer your original question, but anyhoo......

 

[gomezz]

To each their own, and this is just my opinion but, in this day and age I think it's incredibly not wise to keep everything exclusively on your phone

I don't think any of us said that the phone was the only place they kept their own data. For example, my own music library is not only on my phone but on my tablet and my laptop as well as on a USB memory button kept plugged into my car radio so even if the house burnt down then none of that would be totally lost.