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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Aaron Klotz

Just in time for Prime Day, Steam's hardware survey reveals PC gamers have less free storage than ever — most users have only 100-250GB of space, barely enough for a couple of AAA titles

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Samsung 9100 Pro.

Gaming demands on storage drives have exploded over the past few years, with many AAA games now requiring 100GB of storage or more. The Steam hardware survey for June 2025 has revealed that most Steam gamers only have 100 to 249GB of free storage available to install new games.

23.05% of Steam gamers are in this category; the next highest group boasts 250 to 499 GB of free storage, making up another 22.43% of Steam's free hard drive space user share. The final two groups with double-digit user share are the group that boasts 500GB to 749 GB of free storage and the group that boasts 10 GB to 99 GB of free storage. By contrast, only around 17% of all Steam users have free drive space in the 1TB range or more.

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