Storage capacity for a laptop from 1TB HDD to 480 SSD?

I have the following question:

The hard drive of my five year old laptop recently broke.

Since I had absolutely no plan for PCs, I took the device to a local specialist shop for repairs.

Agreement was: hard drive will be exchanged, no data recovery (I regularly make backups on an external hard drive, that was ergo not necessary) and the operating system (Windows 10 Home) new on it.

Today my father picked up the laptop for me, so unfortunately I couldn't speak to the shopkeeper myself.

On the invoice I have now seen that my 1TB HDD hard drive has been exchanged for a 480 GB SSD drive.

Sure… They are faster.

But as an absolute PC idiot, I'm now wondering if this is not a pretty big downgrade in terms of memory.

With the best will in the world, I can't say how far I last exhausted my old hard drive… But I know that I later couldn't get by with the previous laptop with 500 GB.

In itself it is a shame that you now have less space, but an SSD is much faster than an HDD and in my opinion a must in every computer

I think SSD is also better and if it is not enough you can also get an external one for more storage, it is slower then or you can install a 1tb SSD if you have the money😊