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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Steam hardware survey
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:35:10 -0700
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On 3/13/2025 7:17 AM, 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 three external SSDs plugged in totaling 8.5TB and a couple more 
that have stuff stored on them for a few more TB.  The single internal 
HD is only 1TB.

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