benefits of SSD as boot drive compared to HDD?

MA2K

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im thinking of clean installing windows 10 on a seperate SSD as a boot drive and then having a seperate 7200rpm HDD for storage. but what justifies the extra price for the SSD if i only install the system on it?. so apart from bootup times, what are some benefits of having windows 10 on a SSD compared to a 7200rpm HDD? thanks (wont be storing any programs or anything to the SSD other than they system)
 
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An SSD will make a major difference. The whole system is snappier.

USAFRet

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Personally, I would not build a new main use PC without an SSD.

It's not just the OS, but you install most/all of your other applications on it.
Everything is faster, not just boot time.

What do you use your system for?
 

MA2K

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alot of things, it will be my main PC. so web browsing, downloading, light editing, gaming etc, so general usage.