Re: Steam hardware survey

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:52:40 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:37:22 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:50:53 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Dimensional Traveler wrote:
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https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
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Steam does surveys of customers' hardware.  The September 2023 to
February 2025 results are available at the url above.
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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
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(People need bigger hard drives.)

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Or... they need to install one or two games at a time.
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I have 65 installed. Then - if you're that kind of gamer - you need more
than 1 TB. Aspirational play options in my case.
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My Steam games alone take up almost 700GB of space.

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As I understand it, Steam only reports on the drive where its
installed on, and not the total storage capacity. Now, for laptops
this is usually a moot point but a lot of desktops are sold with
multiple drives (usually SSDs for boot and spinning-rust for data) and
this isn't reflected in the survey.
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Again, AFAIK.
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If you go to settings, and then the "storage" tab, you can find total
amounts for every game you have installed on every drive. DLC is reported
separately for some reason, so don't forget to add that in!

That's how I tallied the 690+GB of games in Steam alone. Just added up
the three drives they're on (Fast NVMe SSD, Slow SATA SSD, Slower HDD).

You can also move games from drive to drive there, which was pretty cool
for that new SSD I just got. Only my smaller, older games are still on
the spinning rust; about 9GB (out of 700).

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Zag

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