Re: Steam hardware survey

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:40:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

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.

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

Between multiple partitions and multiple hard-drives, I've (almost)
run out of drive-letters. ;-)

I actually don't have _that_ much space dedicated to installed Steam
games (at least, not compared to the total available space), just
because I tend to uninstall games as soon as I finish playing them (of
the five games I listed in our last "What Have You Been Playing
Thread", all have been removed from the drive). The only real
exceptions are the  * Truck Simulators (natch), and Microsoft Flight
Simulator (and that only because it's so big and Microsoft's download
servers are so slow that I don't ever want to have to download it
again ;-)

My total disk-space dedicated to games is about 700GB. MS Flight Sim
occupies 400GB of that space. Approximately 100GB are currently used
by "transient" games that I'm actively playing but probably will be
deleted by the end of the month. Minecraft gets 10GB all to itself,
and another 20GB for Steam, Uplay, Origin, Rockstar, 'infrastructure'
etc. ;-)