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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Steam hardware survey
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:55:21 -0700
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On 3/13/2025 7:52 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:37:22 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:50:53 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>> Dimensional Traveler 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.)
>>
>> Or... they need to install one or two games at a time.
>>
>> I have 65 installed. Then - if you're that kind of gamer - you need more
>> than 1 TB. Aspirational play options in my case.
>>
>> My Steam games alone take up almost 700GB of space.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Again, AFAIK.
> 
I don't think that's right.  My boot drive that Steam is installed on is 
a bit under 1TB but Steam says "Over 1TB" so it has to be counting at 
least one of my externals.

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