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[Şerban S.]

[...] I should have installed an SSD last year instead of HDD and it would be even faster.

Hello, Vint!

I have about 22 months of practice using SSD drives. Now, I know merchants love their commercials and boost performance in words to make the products "eye-catching". Putting all this BS aside, I checked the performance individually, on each machine I used and the speed boost a SSD can offer, largely depends on the technical specifications of the given machine.
On this machine (Dell Precision T1700), the measurements show a speed boost of about 500% (five times faster than HDD). Previously, I had two types of HDD: Western Digital and Seagate. I never had the money to buy the server-type (10,000 rpm) so I bought the 7,200 rpm versions, even 5,400 rpm. So this was the comparison term: HDD 500 GB, 5,400 rpm.
While the articles on this subject say the speed of a 5,400 is 100 MB/sec and for 7,200 rpm is 120 MB/sec (never ever got that!!), the measured speed for a SSD, is around 350... 400 MB/sec.
See the image below. Obviously, the test was conducted on Linux Lite 6.0:

I know now that we need a comparison with another media benchmark. So, here it is! An old Seagate laptop HDD, 120 GB:

Theoretically, it is 10 times faster. When you copy files though, the transfer window shows a different story!
Anyway, a SSD IS at least, 5 times faster than any HDD.

Here is another benchmark, for an external Seagate Elements, 4 TB, USB 3:

Why are the values so different?

I used different partitioning systems over time. I noticed that the MSDOS partition table type, leads to slow reading/writing speeds, while GPT partitioning, leads to a way faster read/write speed.
The read value at about 35 MB/sec, is given by a MSDOS partitioning table of a HDD, with an ext2 file system.
The read values of 179 MB/sec and respectively 385 MB/sec, are given ba GPT partitions of a HDD, ext2 file systems.
Comparing the speed values of the same type of drive AND partitioning type, makes sense. Otherwise, it's BS. It's black-hat marketing. Period!

The problem with those GPT partitions is that are difficult to use on a BIOS firmware machine. They are incompatible and using them, might damage the drives.
Getting at this point, leaves us with the above said speed for a SSD:
On an GPT partition, AND a UEFI firmware, you get a 5 times speed boost;
On an MSDOS partition, AND a BIOS firmware, you get a 5 times speed boost;
The 10 times boost, results from comparing dogs with elephants:
That is, when you benchmark a HDD with MSDOS partitioning and a SSD with a GPT partitioning, and you put the values side by side, without specifying the drive type AND partitioning type! Which is BS.
It would be the same as to say a bycicle is the same with the latest BMW car, or a Hummer, just because the two kinds of transport, have wheels...

Cheers!
Have a wonderful day!