Do HDD's still have a use as media storage in a gaming rig?

[Rancidpunk]

Have I got out of touch over the last few months?

 

I've been talking to a guy about his 10600k gaming build on this thread 

and I want to know what you all think - is a $200 2tb SSD a better option than a 500gb nvme and a 2tb HDD for $120?

 

[Kanna]

Personally I use HDD's as game drives and ssd for important programs and boot since for me the loading times doesn't matter and it's cheaper with bulk HDD storage

[nick name]

I put all my media on HDDs.  Internal and external.  Everything else is SSD.  The only time it sucks is moving a bunch of music.  

[gloop]

I currently have a 500Gb ssd as the only storage in my system. It fits my programs and I have games in a separate partition. The only modern games I play are OW and GTA V, so I have about 50GB left for older games which are the types of games I mainly play. I am thinking of getting another 500Gb ssd exclusively for games tho. 

[Beowulff83]

I put most of my games on hdd.  There are a few exceptions,  total war, warhammer comes to mind.  I couldn't take the loading times so i moved it to my ssd.

[steelo]

I use a hdd to house movies I stream via plex and lesser played games I don't mind waiting a few more seconds to load. They're dirt cheap and work well enough for those purposes.

[danann]

I'd go for the larger SSD. Games are crazy huge nowadays. He can always add a hard drive later.

There's not much noticeable difference in real world usage speed between NVMe and Sata SSDs - I think there's even a LTT video about it where people picked wrong the fastest on blind tests.