I had a SSD for the past 2 years now, and it is night and day, not just for games. Turning on my PC is like 10 seconds and windows is loaded fully, my HDD 10krpm would take about 1min. I been bored since the servers went down to I been playing skyrim a lot, and I decided to install it on my HDD 10krpm raptor and it ran ok, but had some stutters when running around the open world, small stutters but I did notice them. I than started a new character and deleted ff14 1.0 making room on my SSD so I decided to install skyrim on my SSD and wow what a difference. Before on my HDD when playing skyrim I could read the little tips you got or messages during loading, and skyrim has a lot of loading screens, but on my SSD during the loading screens the game loaded so fast that I could not even finish reading half a message or tip. I would say took 1-2 seconds during loading screens in skyrim VS the usual 10-15 seconds using the HDD. Also no stuttering when exploring the open world at all, smooth as it can be.