An SSD will give better performance than a traditional HDD on any application that is loading data from disk past the initial programme load. Â To give you some idea of my experience of PCs, I built my first one based on an motherboard using an Intel 80286 processor in 1987.
However there is of course a trade off, the per Gigabyte cost of an SSD is much greater than a HDD.  Also SSDs are typically much lower capacities than HDDs because of the cost.  I use an SSD for my operating system and apps that I want to load as quickly as possible.  For games, because they can take up a significant amount of space I found a  compromise.
Seagate 750GB Momentus XT Hybrid Thin SSHD
There's lots of review and technical stuff about this drive if you want to research it but in summary. Â It is a 750GB HDD with an 8GB SDD integrated into it. Â The hard drive monitors what files (including parts of files) you access frequently and keeps copies of those on the SSD, so they load at SSD speed. Â Now 8GB doesn't sound like a lot, but even with a game like FFXIV ARR (which is taking 7.2GB on my drive) only a small percentage of that is probably being access frequently.
However there is of course a trade off, the per Gigabyte cost of an SSD is much greater than a HDD.  Also SSDs are typically much lower capacities than HDDs because of the cost.  I use an SSD for my operating system and apps that I want to load as quickly as possible.  For games, because they can take up a significant amount of space I found a  compromise.
Seagate 750GB Momentus XT Hybrid Thin SSHD
There's lots of review and technical stuff about this drive if you want to research it but in summary. Â It is a 750GB HDD with an 8GB SDD integrated into it. Â The hard drive monitors what files (including parts of files) you access frequently and keeps copies of those on the SSD, so they load at SSD speed. Â Now 8GB doesn't sound like a lot, but even with a game like FFXIV ARR (which is taking 7.2GB on my drive) only a small percentage of that is probably being access frequently.
