Few people care about disk throughput, they care about disk latency, which is why an SSD boots Windows 10x faster than a hard drive, as the disk head seeks all over the disk as it struggles to load all the crapware the manufacturer installed.
Even our old Linux netbook booted 3x faster when I put an SSD in there. First thing I did when I bought my new laptop was pull out the hard drive and put in the SSD from the old one.
You are, of course, welcome to your opinion. I would still caution anyone putting an SSD into an older SATA or early SATA 2 system not to expect too much of a performance increase, or they will be sadly disappointed.
Of the 3 Win 7 home systems I upgraded recently with SSD boot disks, the two older desktops with SATA 2 interfaces did not gain significantly in bootup time, even one that had previously been booting off a PATA HDD. These are entirely self-built, btw, and do not suffer from "crapware" as you so eloquently put it.
However, my laptop - which has a SATA 3 interface - is unbelievably fast to boot Win 7 after the SSD upgrade, compared to the 7.2K disk it replaced.
In my case, the lack of heat, noise and vibration of the SSDs in the desktop PCs were factors as important as the speed. I was not expecting earth-shattering improvements so I was not disappointed. I would say that there is a discernible improvement, but not nearly enough to warrant paying a lot more for a comparable size disk, unless other factors are considered.
Having researched this before I did the upgrade, I'm by no means alone in finding that SSDs are limited by the speed of the underlying interface.
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