I for the life of me just cannot play RTS games. I have tried, but RTS games and I just do not go together for whatever reason.
I’m like that with sports games and pvp games
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You will notice a huge difference in app load times on the SSD. It is probably the biggest and cheapest upgrade anyone can make to their PC.
Yeah a home server is a fun hobby project. Cheap too, since powerful components aren’t really necessary. You can grab an old used mobo + CPU off of eBay for pocket change and build a server that has more power than will ever be needed.
I actually have a i7 5820k with mb laying around lol, just don’t have ram for it
Cool thing is that SSd drives are not that expensive anymore. I bought a crucial 1tb ssd drive off Amazon right after Thanksgiving day last year for $99. Heck right now the same drive I bought is just $103 currently. Best upgrade you can make for wow imo is a ssd drive, because of all the load screens this game has.
An SSD is truly a noticeable upgrade from a normal hard drive. It’s not like going from 8GB of ram to 16GB it’s like going from an abacus to a computer 
If money is really tight I would suggest at the bare bare minimum you get a 250GB SSD but of course, the bigger the better 
Blizz suggests 100GB but I have Beta, Retail and Classic installed and my wow directory is 85GB then you need to consider windows and any programs you install. You can just keep all your files on your old HDD using an external USB enclosure or just use cloud storage if you don’t have much stuff.
It’s not a hard requirement, but it certainly speeds up entering the game and whenever you zone into a new map.
Been having a blast with the C&C remasters also. They said that, if the Tiberium Dawn, and Red Alert remasters did well, then they would probably give the rest of C&C series of games the remaster treatment 
RA2 would be the bomb to get remastered honestly, i had so many hours on that game.
We can forget C&C 4 existed though, stop at generals
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(Assuming “RE” means Resident Evil)
Been wondering when RE4 will get an actual remaster instead of yet another port.
I meant RA2 lol, red alert 2
And sadly, RE4 IS their next remake, would have love to have seen Dino Crisis or RE Code Veronica first.
It does matter, and I think their reasoning for those specs is because of the shear size of the game now. Back when WoW was around 8GB it didn’t matter. Now it does because we’re going to be in the 100’s of GB of recommended space needed.
Check to see if you have more than one slot on laptop for disk memory (i.e. SSD, HDD). If so, you can buy a 120GB internal SSD SATA 2.5" for roughly $20 bucks on Amazon.
If you don’t have an extra SATA slot for a memory disk device in your laptop, you can buy an external SSD. These are a little more expensive because of the extra hardware to make it a peripheral (i.e. plug into external USB or SATA port).
In any case, and looking at the long term, having your system on an SSD drastically speeds up I/O. If you can’t install a new one and migrate your system to the SSD, just know that your external SSD will usually perform better on a SATA III port than a USB 3.0 (if you have those options).
If you’re even near 100gigs i’d reinstall, wow is still less than 50
Sorry I’ll clarify…
recommended space needed.
I mean, you could recommend 1 tb, doesn’t change the space the game ACTUALLY takes lol.
I have PTR, Beta, Classic and Retail installed and i’m at 75gigs, with 50+ addons
How do you deal with your pc or any game taking longer than 8 seconds to load/be ready?
Id smash something.
Buy a SSD just for the benefit it gives not only for wow, but for every single other thing your pc does.
I’m not interested in what space the game takes, I’m interested in the specs Blizzard put out and the OPs question 
It’s kinda bonkers but if you have a computer with USB 3.1/3.2 or Thunderbolt 3, those can actually be faster than SATA III. I have a Type-C/3.2 external SSD that I get 1200MB/s reads with.
I wonder how many more years motherboards will even have SATA connectors now that they’ve been outclassed both internally and externally.
Ah I didn’t know about USB 3.1/3.2! Thanks