Not necessarily, I'm fine with 500gb for ordinary use, the only use I would have for HDDs would be to keep huge audio libraries or to edit large video files. If like me he doesn't need that much storage a 500gb or more SSD is a blessing.
Exactly my point. A 500Gb SSD will have you covered for the most part, and HDDs are cheap, you can pick one up later. I personally like moving all the Music, Pictures, Videos and such to a NAS anyways.