Quick question, do solid state drives dramatically improve load times?
Depends on your setup. There’s definitely going to be an improvement, but how much depends on what exact hardware you’re comparing, as well as other factors that may affect boot and load times.
Yup and there are fun new toys in the form of Hybrid SSD’s that combine an 8GB SSD with a 500GB standard hard drive. They shift the most commonly used files to the SSD portion.