Thanks for that suggestion! Makes a great deal of sense to switch to SSD.
Just digging a little bit, and I see even if my SATA controller is not so new, SDD still has a huge advantage.
Switching to SSD om y older Dell desktop took a lot of jiggery pokery. Cloning methonds would not boot, etc.
Once it worked, the speed of boot in particular is awesome.
That alone was worth the nominal cost of the SSD.