Yes. This universities website gave a good high-level overview of why. Look under Hard Drives vs SSDs

I get what you’re saying but OP said they wanted to donate the PC. If you’re got enough time will, time, and money, you’ll get the data off the drive. That’s why I don’t recommend including the drive at all.

Instead, I recommend that they simply remove the drive before donating it. That way, there is no possibility the person who gets the donated pc will get a hold of the drive or the data on it.

Whenever I get a pc from a thrift store or whatever, I always remove and destroy the hard disk if it has one before I even power it on.

It doesn’t work with SSDs :(

The only way to 100% ensure no one will ever see what’s on the drive is to remove it from the pc before donating it.

Once the drive is out you can do what want with it.