Re: Steam hardware survey

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:17:27 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Justisaur wrote:

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.

I've got a 1TB NVMe and a 2TB SATA SSD. I have 10TB (the bs number) of
HDD, and I use very little of it for games any longer since the 2TB drive
was put in. I could honestly move all of my games off the HDD.

But I'm using the 75% rule for SSDs, and only Steam makes it convenient
to move around games. Every other distribution client wants you to run an
installer.

So maybe I'll get around to it. Maybe.

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