What JF said. I invested in a "hybrid" drive for my laptop's system drive, and got a big boost in boot time and operation speed (due to improved swap file performance). This was when actual SSDs were still prohibitively expensive, but the "hybrid" drive sort-of emulates some of the benefits of an SSD by using a fhuge cache and some clever look-ahead algorithms. My OS and executables mostly reside there.
My "storage" drive is a standard 3T HD that replaced my optical drive (no, it's not porn, you perverts, I've got gadzillions of work files stored up from nearly 20 years of doing the same job).
My "storage" drive is a standard 3T HD that replaced my optical drive (no, it's not porn, you perverts, I've got gadzillions of work files stored up from nearly 20 years of doing the same job).