Need help with new rig build. mainly with Storage. Please help

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It is that time again I have the itch to upgrade my computer. I wont mind spending another grand, I just cant see where. This is what I am wanting. NO LAG. Having a standard hard drive is killing me. I have just not wanted to upgrade because of cost with a good unit. I dont like buying crap.

What I want:
-Boot time under 5 seconds Must. This is where I need the most help. Sata, PCi, or M.2
-Switching between applications and having 20 internet tabs open at once without hesitation. I do not do any rendering, cad, or heavy lifting like that. Mostly internet and a lot of it. I work from home as an analyst.
-Be able to play Dota 2, Grand theft auto, COD, on ultimate. I can pretty much do that already, BUT I want to be future proofed for the next years titles. I have been unable to justify spending any more money for a Graphics card vs what I would get in return. Not much increase.

Here are my current specs:

Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz (OC to 4.0)<I dont think I need to go up to i7's. Thoughts?
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO<Thoughts here?
ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard<Must replace
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory<I want 16 gigs
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive<F this crap
MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card <I think I should just burn this beast into the ground. What do you think?
Rosewill CHALLENGER ATX Mid Tower Case<-burn it, I want eye candy
EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply<going strong
Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor<-nice monitor

And here is what I have come up with so far for my new build:

Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz (OC to 4.0)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive<I might need to go up to 1tb. But man the cost goes up lol. But maybe that is the way to go, I dunno. I will put media on the seagate
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card
NZXT H440 (Red) ATX Mid Tower Case
EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Razer DeathAdder Wired Optical Mouse

Thanks for your help. Feel free to ask any questions.
 
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I would (also doing it now) get a smaller SSD, like 240GB for instance, increase secondary HDD for that money. Than you install OS and programs on SSD and when you install larger games install them on secondary disk (HDD), Small portion of game will be installed on SSD and larger portion will go to HDD. It will still load fast but not take so much space. Until SSD's prices come down substantially, this is the way to go financially wise.
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I would (also doing it now) get a smaller SSD, like 240GB for instance, increase secondary HDD for that money. Than you install OS and programs on SSD and when you install larger games install them on secondary disk (HDD), Small portion of game will be installed on SSD and larger portion will go to HDD. It will still load fast but not take so much space. Until SSD's prices come down substantially, this is the way to go financially wise.
 
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Only issue to consider with getting a smaller SSD is that they are also much slower. A 500Gb SSD will generally be 40% faster on sequential read/writes than a 240Gb one will and a 1Tb will be even faster. It's simply a matter that it has more NANDS to read from increasing the throughput. Even if they have the same number of physical chips, the larger ones have more 3D NAND cores internally.

In any event going from a HDD OS drive to SSD will feel a hundred times faster. A Samsung EVO is a great choice, I'd go with an M.2 one definitely as it's actually a PCIe connection rather than SATA and will give you a lot more out of the SSD.
 
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Yes and no. The speed difference still exists, however most people's motherboard and or interface (be it SATA or M.2) max out before the SSD does. Many older motherboards while having M.2 ports they were only using a SATA connection through the M.2 and didn't actually have PCIe on the M.2 slot. If the rest of your equipment can support it, the larger ones are still faster. If you look carefully at an M.2 SSD PCB you can see that it has SATA and PCIe contacts. If the PCIe isn't present then it'll only have SATA speeds, which is what's thrown off many benchmarks.

Here's a graphic that shows the interface breakdown.
m.2.jpg

Not all M.2 ports or M.2 SSD's are created equal. If you look many M.2 SSD's aren't actually using the PCIe part of the form factor.
 
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Yes that too but also another thing. Not all SSD manufacturers can make large SSDs so they tend to come from better makes and therefore faster. Unfortunately they are more expensive too. Price per GB doesn't fall with size like it does for HDDs. They are still expensive sport.
 
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