Does having an SDD over a hard drive give more advantages than just loading times

100% get an SSD. Using a HDD now feels excruciatingly slow.

They're not hugely expensive nowadays even if you just get a 250gb drive to stick OS and a game or two on and then stick the rest on a cheapish HDD.

Alternatively you could look at SSHD's which are fairly quicker than a HDD but still substantially slower than an SSD.
 
A traditional HDD can be the noisiest part of a PC, at least it was for me when I changed from noise dampening to a high airflow case with all other quiet components.

My 4TB WD Blue games drive was making way too much noise even at idle so I switched it up for a budget 2TB Samsung QVO SSD for silence.
 
You can get a 240GB SSD for under £40. It is the best value general purpose upgrade you can do to a computer that doesn't have one.
 
An SSD will not only effect game load times but also buffering in game if you play large open world games so a much smoother game experience.
 
I paid £245 for a 120Gb ssd 9 years ago...was blown away by the change to PC...so much more responsive (average seek time is 75 times faster (15ms vs 0.2ms))...best upgrade of the new build I did at that time...wife wasn't impressed though lol...a 2Tb mechanical drive was only £60 even back then....same ssd drive is now £25....its a no brainer honestly....best get a 250gb though for about £40 or less.

The only down side is that when they die they die suddenly so data recovery of slowly failing drive data isn't possible for us mere mortals.....keep all data backed up or pay silly money for the pros to get it back for you.
 
Agreed, I literally use HDD fro family videos and photos and backups that are used once in a blure moon, windows on M2 C: and games on M2 D: drive and it flies. HDD is simply a basic storage medium now even in fast NAS setups tbh. That's where I use my 4TB's.
 
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