Went to Best Buy and fought the Black Friday crowds to buy 2 each 120 gigabyte SSD drives by Piny, tiny cute little 2.5 inch laptop drives actually.
SATA 3 speeds, 2 million hours of use life supposedly.
Black Friday price was $17.99 eachI popped one into my oldest Linux box, which is old enough that it only will support SATA 2 speeds which the little drive also does jest fine, so the little drive did great as my bootable drive and the old Dell machine feels like 3x faster than it used to be and 10 times faster when installing updates, etc.
I velcro'd the little drive into place on top of the existing platter hard drive since it weighs nothing and a proper Dell drive adapter for it would cost as much as the little drive itself did on Black Friday sale.
Linux is EASY compared to Windows, I was done with the upgrade in 10 minutes and had the software all installed in another 20 minutes (most of which was copying bookmarks over and tuning all the setting to be the way I like them).
This was the best bang for the bucks pure speed upgrade I have ever done on a computer.
EVER.