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Awful idea for games with a lot of leading screens, such as Skyrim.
Total War Warhammer is arguably unplayable on HDD.
Did you know that you can move things between drives? No one plays their entire Steam library at the same time, but I can store much of it ready to play on large-capacity HDDs, which are dirt-cheap. If I suddenly got back into Skyrim again, I'd spend a few minutes moving it to one of my SSDs.
Skyrim is not going to take a few minutes. A few hours, at best.
Not even remotely true on modern hardware. It's pretty quick.
It has nothing to do with modern hardware since you're still limited by the read speed of your disks. Given we're talking about spinning rust, that will take tens of minutes to complete a couple hundred gig, and even more so if you're transferring tons of small files.
I could easily see it taking over an hour for a 200+gb install. Even going at the theoretical max, you're looking at 20min just in data. Tacking on added latency from opening and closing many small files and any kind of fragmentation/disk location, that's going to add significant time to the transfer.