if you play games or even do office work or graphics (like a big photoshop swap file) you need a ssd. office felt weighted down when i lost my ssd for a month, when i got a new one, it was zippy!, when i got one of the first consumer ssds 6 years ago for games, like in everquest, i was always the first one to load into the zone, which wasn't bad, sometimes we had to "break" a zone so me being the leader and tank worked fine.
how many times do you boot up anyway? lol it's for super fast program loading.