Originally Posted by
garykung
This I agree. However, at the same time, some people buying SSDs don't know better as well.
Again - the value of SSD depends on the users.
Well, yeah. Some people don't care about performance at all; the cheapest tier of machines with 2GB of memory and Atom processors wouldn't exist. Although plenty of those machines are sold with 32gb of eMMC storage, which isn't what most people normally think of as SSD (and is horribly slow) but it's even cheaper than the cheapest hard dives, and drop-proof.
That said, for pretty much anyone else who doesn't have a whole ton to store, other than not having enough RAM, it's pretty literally the most noticeable thing about a system's performance. A midrange machine from 2011 or 2012 or not totally bottom-of-the-line modern machine is pretty tolerable speed-wise if it's got enough memory and even a relatively dated SSD. Disk? Not so much, and I've upgraded enough non-technical friends to know that the difference is noticeable even to relatively more tolerant non-technical people.