And what is your max hard drive capacity? Mine is... 94.0 GB... And my hard drive is... Relatively ancient- and I believe I'm starting to have problems related to it, where I'm extremely limited in how many modern games I can play at once... Some modern games seem to even take up nearly my entire hard drive space. I believe it to be anywhere from 6 to 8 years old, maybe older. I tried to google to figure out what the average was, and it seemed like it was at least 250 GB... Perhaps even 500 GB.

One of the google results turned up something from 2011 saying "The Average HDD is Now 590 GB in Capacity". Is that REALLY true? What do you think the average hard drive space is in 2015? Is 94 GB extremely tiny for a 2015 computer that's SUPPOSED to specialize in gaming?

I'm starting to think, I should soon invest in a much more modern hard drive, and now when it comes to the progress of technology... Hmm I looked at it in my hardware properties... And I think it's from... 2006, yes TWO thousand SIX. So... That would mean my hard drive is over... A decade old. I... Wonder how much they have improved since then. Perhaps that's why I've been having so many memory problems with my computer... Nearly ten years without a hard drive upgrade... All while trying to have multiple modern games installed.

Yes, that is very small. You can get a 1 TB drive for ~$75 now, so most people I know that build gaming computers go with that. There are also consumer drives around 3 TB for a reasonable price (~$100). If you are asking what is the maximum HDD size you can buy regardless of price, I'm not sure, it would require some research. That being said I'm not sure what you mean by "average max hard drive space", as it could be interpreted a number of different ways. 10 years is a long time for a HDD, I would purchase a new one, especially if you are running into space problems.

Personally I have a 250 GB SSD and 2x 1 TB drives, though I only have two because I had one from an external drive I wasn't using so I just threw it in. At the moment I have 362 GB of game files installed, for a frame of reference.

Wow... Just... Astonishing. That's like... Around 10 times what I currently have... Technology sure has improve massively in a decade... Thanks for telling me... I had no idea and this all explains so much. And for 75 that sounds like a great deal.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I have about 2.25TB myself (1x 250GB SSD, 2x 500GB HDDs, and 1x 1TB HDD)

"average max"....

For average, talking purely hard drives, I'd say it's somewhere around 750GB. seems most laptops come with 500GB drives and most desktops come with 1 TB drives. If we start considering SSDs and SSDs, that number is going to head downwards, probably around 400 GB.

As for max:you can easily get a 6TB drive. 8 and 10 TB drives are also available.

As for me: I have 3 1TB drives in my desktop + 3 3TB drives in my NAS + 4 2TB drives external. I'm currently debating upgrading the NAS to 4 or 6TB drives and replacing the external drives with the old 3TB drives.

What could a private consumer possibly need 8 to 10 TBs of hard drive for? Er....better yet...I don't think I want to know that answer.

I would say that the average everyday hard drive is what I have, 1 TB.

My gosh, I remember in 1995 having a 1 gig hard drive and thinking it's impossible to fill that thing.

One of the main reasons to have a lot of HDD space is video recording/capturing. Raw uncompressed videos are very big. Game installs are huge; GTAV PC is 65GB.

This is true. I guess it's like Junkie said where technology marches on and what was once 'a lot of memory' is being shifted further ahead.

3 TBs... Sounds amazing. Then I wouldn't have to be uninstalling Steam games all the time to play other Steam games when I hardly have any installed cause... I can only have a few installed at once. I have Deus Ex Human Revolution, Morrowind, Skyrim, Torchlight 2, Fallout New Vegas, GTA, GTA 2, GTA 3, GTA 4, GTA San Andreas, GTA Vice City, Half Life Deathmatch, Half Lost Coast, Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead, Warframe, Team Fortress 2, and Planetside. But my hard drive space is so tiny, that Morrowind especially with mods, combined with TF2 takes up nearly my ENTIRE hard drive space.

All the GTAs I have is excessive imo, wouldn't need to have every single edition of GTA installed at once, though... Being able to have nearly everything else installed at once without hard drive space issues, and still being able to try out plenty of games, while still having plenty of space... Massive improvement from where I currently am.

Wow... Most... Modern laptops have more than twice the space my desktop has. This reminds me of how I talked to my father about the earliest of computers, and he told me the oldest ones used to be about the size of a basketball court, something... Huge like that, and yet pretty much entirely inferior to modern computers that are much smaller. And now, my computer has less hard drive space than most laptops.

It's amazing how they manage to make increasingly more advanced things, function in smaller and smaller and smaller spaces like that.

I remember when I was impressed by 10GB HDDs...

I remember my first computer had a 50 MB hard drive. Man, was it difficult to fit classic Doom on it with it's humongous 20MB WAD file

On topic, my current system has a 2TB HDD. It's too small

Ah, the memories of what I was using before I built my PC..... running Win XP, on a Bootcamp partition on my old iMac. Of course, since it didn't have a massive HD, I'd made a minimum-size partition (so I'd still have space for all my Mac stuff).

Which means I was running XP + Games in a 32 GB partition. Yeah, uninstall/reinstall was a constant companion.

(My current PC and my current Mac both have 1TB drives. Yay, space!)

...which reminds me of the old 10MB harddrive that was kicking around in our basemant, back when my father was peripherally involved with AT&T's attempts at an 8086 PC clone. Man, that thing was huuuuuuge. Physically, that is. At least as big as my current optical drive.

I use a lot of storage for my VMs on my servers.

Desktop -

120GB SSD

240GB SSD

500GB HDD

300GB HDD

Laptop -

120GB SSD

Server 1-

1TB HDD

3TB HDD

2TB HDD

2TB HDD

600GB HDD

Server 2 -

2TB HDD

3TB HDD

1TB HDD

All of that added up / 13 = ~1.2TB average per drive for me

I'd say the average is probably 1 TB. There's a lot of hard drives that are bigger, but you go buy a 700 dollar laptop at the store, out of box you'll probably be looking at 1 terabyte at this point in time on average.

I have 2 TB of HDD storage and 250 GB of SSD storage.

My C: drive is an (old) 80GB SSD. I have a 1TB and 500GB HDD as well.

If we are including PVRs, I have a 3TB external HDD attached to it.

I impatiently await the day until SSDs are dirt cheap.

I currently have a 1TB HD, and two 500GB SSDs installed. I've got another two 1TB HDs lying around, which aren't currently in use. I've also got an external 1TB HD connected to my router.

I have 3, 1 TB drives in my PC, and 2 external ones for storage, only reason i havent gotten a bigger drive is ive known to many people that have had failures with larger drives and its a significant amount of data to lose, they went back to 1 TB ones and so far no problems. But its so strange reading what you have in storage, it so reminds me of my early computers always wishing i had a larger drive and mt technician constantly complaining, how much i was storing.

I have a (2) 320GB HDD and a 1TB HDD I would guess max would be up in the 750GB - 1TB, SSD are climbing up as well up to the 500GB.

I have a 3TB HDD and 500GB SSD in my PC, plus 4TB in my NAS. I also have a 2TB external HDD connected to my TV and a 500GB external HDD connected to my NAS.

Wow, times have certainly changed. I remember my first computer had maybe around 4 GB lol. The average does seem to fall around 500 GB - 1 TB nowadays though, unless you're counting SSDs.

Games games games! I bought a 4TB drive a couple of months ago and it's nearly full of just Steam games alone. I haven't even started installing my CD-ROM/DVD-ROM based games yet, and GoG games too.

If you want to say average for prebuilt desktops and laptops, 500GB to 1TB is what you'll typically find. Though you can easily get more than that for prebuilts if you spend a little more. Of course any decent gaming rig will probably have at least 1TB. Heck, the new consoles have 500GB and I know mine is going to need to be replaced probably within a year of purchase (already taken up more than half of the total storage, about half of the initial available storage). I'm probably going to be looking into a 2TB SSD for the PS4.

A 2TB SSD is roughly $2,000.00 - $3,000.00.