My Windows 7 boots to the start application in under a minute.
It’s not only boot time, everything is faster.
I remember back in my geek days when I used to play Battlefield and other 3D shooters and constantly had to upgrade my system to keep up with the latest. Always adding more memory, new motherboards, faster processors, video cards and bus speeds... Nothing compared to when I bought my first WD Raptor 10,000 RPM, 36gb hard drive back in the day. Wow! Programs seemed to load instantly and the upgrade was immediately noticeable. Computer seemed like it tripled in speed.
Just bought a Corsair 128gb SSD and going to use it as my boot HD and put files on the 1TB drive.