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I'm trying to get more ssds or get a hdd with big chunk of gbs. But I'm wondering if HDD or SSD matters on game engines like Unreal Engine/Unity, do they matter?
 
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You have a great budget. How much you can benefit from SSD depends on the game. Some games don't see any benefits, others benefit a lot. While gaming, take a look at Task Manager > Performance tab to see if you max the disk usage. Any game with lots of small files benefits (especially moddable games). I couldn't play Kingdom Come Deliverance because trees and houses would pop up randomly while playing, installing on SSD fixed it.

Also, Don't buy an SSHD. It's advertising a lot without anything to back it up. It's mildly...
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Yes and no. SSD will load significantly faster all around. Additionally, they reduce issues with what they call "stitching," which is where you can get a stutter or pause as you move between different areas on the map that are "stitched" together. I highly recommend an SSD just for the increased load times, but it isn't going to decimate your playing experience if you don't have it.
 
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My budget's 400 usd at max. Fyi, I'm not trying to get more space for games but for game engine and its folders. Looking at your reply made me clear that I need ssd's as I want everything to be fast to load.
 
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I personally use an SSD as my OS and an SSHD as my storage for games etc.
An SSD and HDD would be completely adequate and as the price has come right down on SSD you can pick up a 120 for 25 pounds.
A terabyte HDD will only set you back 35 so your talking 60 pounds for the whole thing.
 
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As others have stated, SSD's give a large boost how quickly maps and other content within games load. I personally use a mixture of drives. I use a large SSD for the OS and games (1TB) and utilize HDD (2TB) for data storage. However, games are very large in size now-days so it is easy to fill up even a 1TB SSD, depending on how many games and what type of games you're storing. I will normally store my competitive games (CS:GO, Fornite, Pubg) on my 1TB SSD so that I can avoid stitching or stutters with texture/prop loads, and then place games that are less competitive (Assassins Creed, Doom, GTA 5) on my HDD as I am less worried about rare hitches during gameplay. Hope this helps.
 
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I would suggest getting something like a 500gb SSD for your OS and the games you play the most, then get a HDD for all of the other games you don't play as much/ games that are massive like GTAV. It's what I do and it works really well for me.
 
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You have a great budget. How much you can benefit from SSD depends on the game. Some games don't see any benefits, others benefit a lot. While gaming, take a look at Task Manager > Performance tab to see if you max the disk usage. Any game with lots of small files benefits (especially moddable games). I couldn't play Kingdom Come Deliverance because trees and houses would pop up randomly while playing, installing on SSD fixed it.

Also, Don't buy an SSHD. It's advertising a lot without anything to back it up. It's mildly better and more expensive than HDD at loading small files compared SSD which blows both away.
HDD VS SSHD
SSD Benchmark
Just compare the numbers between SSD and SSHD (especially 4K read and writes) and you will understand what I mean.
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Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB
Samsung - 860 Evo 1TB
If your build supports M.2, get the 960 or 970 version like this one.
Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB
SATA SSD vs M.2/NVMe SSD
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All in all, if nothing stops you from buying an SSD, buy it. Nothing beats the 10s or faster boot and instant game load.
 
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Well Samsung is the best and fastest.

The Crucial MX 500 would be the only other real choice.
 
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