Re: Steam hardware survey

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:52 this Thursday (GMT):

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.

I use multiple partitions, so I'd technically fall into the 250-400GB
category. Including the root partition, I'm closer to 600GB.
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