I am a simple man, who had hdd.
Today after some self education I have installed basic 256 sdd just for wow
Oh boy, it’s such a stunning difference 
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its been years since they stopped manufacture and sell older hard drives.
you have it only if your pc is old and you never upgraded it.
the loading is slow probably due to terrible software design.
plenty of people play it without any problems. as long as you run grpahic around 4-5 wow runs very smoothly even on mine 6 year old laptop with only hdd 
now if people want to play on ultra its different story but not eveyrone plays mmorpgs for super hiper amazing graphics.
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The minimum requirements are to ensure you can run the game smoothly. If the game is a slideshow, your PC can’t run it. In 8.1.5 Blizz introduced plenty of loading problems to people running on HDDs that don’t exist when the game is ran on SSD. I’d say even right now, an SSD is absolutely required for WoW. The type of issues caused by not running from an SSD cannot be fixed by changing the graphics settings. WoW will rely more and more on procedural loading, and that will require SSD to make sure the game runs smoothly, no matter the settings.
2 years ago, SSDs were much more expensive than now. Right now, you can get a good 240GB SSD for 60 bucks. I have 2 of those in my PC - one for my system and software and the othe for games. I also have a 1TB storage HDD for my work files. At this point in time, if your system isn’t running off an SSD, you have a PC that is like 3 generations behind the clock and all your other parts don’t matter, because everything is bottlenecked by your HDD’s speeds.
My boss sells mechanical HDD.
He only sells ssd versions to gamers off budget and CAD folks where I am. Most times, he gets HDD for replacements and people who won’t spend more than the minimum to get a PC.
I doubt they will be the norm round here till maybe 2025 or later. Hell, I was scavin’ parts from windows98 carcasses when winXP was still around, and back when win10 started I still had winVista laptops coming in for renewal/reinstall/repair work.
Then again, apparently Yorkshire is part of the Third World lol.
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i thought you were going to say you live in Sibir.
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That feel when your new computer has a 1 TB NvME PcIE 4.0 SSD and a slower 1TB Sata SSD. No HDD in 2020
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my laptop still has an unused m.2 slot so im ok 
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Too much moonshine
nah, if your running a vodka cooled rig, you can never have enough.
but im personaly putting off getting an ssd till i replace my current pc.
when i have to, im gona get a new one. shes lasted nearly 8 years (one month less than GuildWars2, which she was built for) with only a couple of replacement graphics cards. and her CPU is still good since its an 8core. she gona make a good offline game machine.
I have 2 10-year+ old PCs in my house. My brother uses one to do his job - he translates movies, so we just slapped a 120GB SSD for the system, slapped some extra ram and that machine now flies. Even if we upgraded it, he wouldn’t get any functional performance out of it, everything is now instant for what he does. The other is a “kitchen PC” which serves mostly for my mom to check her e-mail, the weather and to play power metal. Old PCs still have a place, in my opinion, but as far as gaming is concerned, in 2021, having an SSD will be the baseline for all games. Consoles are the bare minimum for gaming hardware, and all new consoles will have SSDs on them. So yeah, PC gamers will have to keep up.
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oh, i love my old PCs. i have a sims only pc thats still on winXP and is only for the sims games (no sneaking to EA to try to get me to social media)
and another thats for just old win98 games like dungeon siege and dungeon keeper (i still have the disks)
and i will allways try to keep an old machine for those old games. because they cant take them away from me, while i have the disks and they work.
my current game machine will move downstairs when i replace her, and all online stuff will go, then sims 1, 2 and 3 will get installed (spanks sims2 SecuROM hard) and ill finaly be able to play sims3 in more than just a small window XD
but i want to postpone it as long as possable, because it means spending money, and im mostly broke lol. saving is hard sometimes and then Animal Crossing : New Horizons appears and washes you away from lockdown…
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Where you keep all those machines 
Yeah i got the expensive ssd’s. i want quality not quantity 
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I don’t think it’s essential but it will reduce loading times a lot. They won’t stop you playing just because you don’t have an SSD.
I used to play with a graphics card way below the minimum specs and it never stopped me playing.
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I did my first m+ 10 all achievement on pc with intel 630hd graphics
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Careful with “basic” SSD’s becasue some can cause game freeze becasue cheap SSD’s while doing well whil reading and writing big files can completetly choke with small file size and cause system/game freezes.
Recently I was forced to use my cheap SSD for OS/Games becasue my better SSD died after 5-ish years and that cheap SSD while working fine does cause ocasionall 1-2 second freezes lol
Well I have already installed it and threw the bill away so no refunds possible
It’s KINGSTON 2.5" KC600, I was told it’s good enough 
I haven’t cloned my hdd, just installed another windows, so I have HDD as a back up emergency plan 
The sims one is an old flat top. Office rescue machine that came from a skip back before dumping electrical components in the household waste was banned (its as old as the episode ‘Rose’ of Dr who lol)
So she don’t take up much space. 17" monitor on top and an old 2nd hand winXP KVM switch to 2system. The xp is an old office 1core tower, not much bigger than an old Xbox. She fits right snugly next to that, so it all fits nicely on top of a foldable table about the size of a full pillow.
Hardly takes space up by the kitchen door XD (outside kitchen door. Most PCs can’t last well inside a well used kitchen. Steam and cooking oils can damage them. But a microwave+kettle type kitchen is not so bad, or ones that are big and airy. You do NOT want to see the CPU fans of the oily ones, nor clean them out…greasy, messy things eeew)
Online is just on a desk in a box room (British tiny room over the stairs. You loose a chunk to the box covering the stairwell, but they work for babies to todler if you use the box area for storage then toddler bunk)
She don’t take up much space ether and I only use a 19" monitor there. Compact lol
With a bit of thought, its not too bad to fit things in, tho no big screen monitors lol. Think ‘tiny house style’
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If you don’t have any freezes or it doesn’t choke when multitasking/copying data while doing other stuff then it should be fine
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