You must be extremely patient.
In any case, it's your story and your opinion.
However, SSDs aren't like the cost they used to be as some have also pointed out.
They are indeed mainstream for DIY builds these days. Just add a hundred bucks and you can get a reasonable small SSD that's perfect to boost OS and loading key programs.
That's the advantage - speed, responsiveness. These aspects can be appreciated by anyone from any walks of life. You don't need a stop watch or a benchmark to figure the difference between a HDD and SDD.
I will also not deny your reasoning of spending that sum towards a better GPU if one is in a real budget and it makes all the difference of getting a GTX 1050 vs. GTX 1060, as long as gaming is the key requirement.
At the end of the day, it's all about a matter of perspective and what's important for a given budget and the intended job.
The thread title and some of the thought process is however misleading and could probably even be a waste of time for those trying to read through and weigh in their thoughts. Time to close this thread.
Feel free to start another thread to have a more focussed and meaningful discussion - e.g. how to speed up/optimize your PC, etc.
well im more practical and a hype cynic. Its one thing to see numbers and graphical charts and another to actually use it.
Thus far for what I do, can't really discern any difference. The gpu handles the steam games, the CPU handles the premiere rendering and photoshop realtime editing, the bus and clock handles the bandwith with ram doing the files. But then again, my desktop is Frankenstein monster with parts salvaged from buy n sell..more fun in my opinion with money saved for batam getaway.
Thus far, the main difference for my rig is slower startup time and shutdown time but only by a few minutes. Not like last time where can make coffee before pc will go into windows. If i was to guess, hdd read write tech must have considerably improved in the years since my last hdd.
One thing about ssd is that it is difficult juggling space between ssd and hdd unless super diligent in file management. For a long term pc and die die must use ssd, minimum is 512gb otherwise just go hdd. Even 256gb will hit a space bottleneck sooner than later depending on the applications installed.
Definitely there will be real time benefits to using ssd but depends on the application. There are games that may go slightly faster but given a choice of upgrading gpu or changing to ssd, it's the gpu upgrade that will give the best performance boost for the dollar. Especially those doing budget builds for autocad, illustrator and etc.