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500GB HDD

Physical Product · SSDs & storage drives · 6 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/buildapc

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Cons

  • If you had no stutters before, there won't be now. But loading times WILL suffer significantly.
  • I mean to start with, you’re still on a hard drive. I still use a hard drive for low speed storage, but most people don’t even put one in a build. I don’t want to sit here and pick apart everything because you know it’s old and modest, b...
  • Modern games are increasingly SSD reliant due to their asset sizes. Games before 2021 were fairly reliable and stable on HDD.
  • I have decided to put 240gb ssd and 500gb hdd in my pc cause my 480gb ssd broke and will rdr2, far cry and other similar games run with no problem and no stutters or anything?
  • so i just got a new pc with a 3200g and asus a320m that i got from a friend and a 500gb hdd, 16gb ddr4 3200mhz and a 750w asrock psu.

Sentiment

0 positive (0%) · 1 mixed (17%) · 5 negative (83%)

Trust + time weighted score: -84% · raw score -83%

What redditors said (6 of 6)

If you had no stutters before, there won't be now. But loading times WILL suffer significantly.
negative · u/M****2 · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 1, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I mean to start with, you’re still on a hard drive. I still use a hard drive for low speed storage, but most people don’t even put one in a build. I don’t want to sit here and pick apart everything because you know it’s old and modest, but let’s just say 16GB RAM is one of your lower barriers to performance here.
negative · u/s****5 · r/buildapc · comment · Mar 15, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Modern games are increasingly SSD reliant due to their asset sizes. Games before 2021 were fairly reliable and stable on HDD.
negative · u/K****s · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 1, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I have decided to put 240gb ssd and 500gb hdd in my pc cause my 480gb ssd broke and will rdr2, far cry and other similar games run with no problem and no stutters or anything?
mixed · u/N****2 · r/buildapc · Feb 1, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
so i just got a new pc with a 3200g and asus a320m that i got from a friend and a 500gb hdd, 16gb ddr4 3200mhz and a 750w asrock psu.
negative · u/f****j · r/buildapc · Mar 15, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Will there be more stutter on an HDD? Maybe, depends on a game to game basis.
negative · u/B****n · r/buildapc · comment · Feb 1, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗

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