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Marginal. The prices of SSDs have come down enough so that cost isn't the same consideration that it was when SSD were around a dollar a gigabyte, not many years ago.
The average latency of a 5400 RPM spinner is 5.56 ms. An SSD's latency would be roughly 0.01 of that. That'll help quite a bit for some purposes, even if the maximum data rate isn't stellar.
Last edited by bobkn; 17 Sep 2018 at 00:23.