SSD is always better, for everything, in everything and under every situation :- ).
But it's also true that 3dsMax has IO/System bottleneck, 1GB project will still take easily a minute to open, despite SSD reading it within second.
I would already strongly prefer PCI NVMe drives compared to SATA ones because their random read, low queue depth and 4k performance is simply surpassing the SATA, so they are beneficial for something like assets (textures,etc..) in particular.
If you are thinking about future, then 1TB is not enough.