Re: Steam hardware survey

On 3/12/2025 5:05 PM, Ant wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

 

Steam does surveys of customers' hardware.  The September 2023 to
February 2025 results are available at the url above.

 

Some interesting categories
Most prevalent OS - Windows 10
Most prevalent language - Simplified Chinese
Total Hard Drive Space - Above 1 TB
Free Hard Drive Space - 250 GB to 499 GB

 

(People need bigger hard drives.)

 Huge sized SSDs are so expensive! :(

I've got a 2TB and a 1TB at the moment SSD at the moment.  I'd like to get a m.2 but I can't justify it now.  I might have to spend a little time cleaning out games I'm not playing, but it's still enough. I'm already not able to read a fill tool-tip in most games (except Starfield) so I can't justify it yet.
Looks like the sweet spot price wise is the same per TB at about $130 for 2TB or $260 for 4.
If you don't mind going for an actual HD you can get a 20TB for that same $260. I can't go back for games, and all the rest of my data fits on that 1TB SSD, so I don't have the need for one.
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