Taosaur, how much faster do you think your system will boot up if your OS and programs were on a SSD. I've been curious about them. I've heard they're a lot quieter and faster, but is the speed increase worth the price increase? I guess it's personal preference.

As for me, I found a 320GB external HDD in a dumpster (don't ask). No wires were with it and I've been wanting to know if it actually works, so I bought another enclosure and it should be shipping to my place soon. I hope the HDD works so that I didn't waste $20 for nothing!

I also want to upgrade my sound system some day...

Edit: I did some research and found
The typical access time for a Flash based SSD is about 35 – 100 micro-seconds
Whereas that of a rotating disk is around 5,000 – 10,000 micro-seconds. That makes a Flash-based SSD approximately 100 times faster than a rotating disk.
HDD data transfer rate at the rate of 80 megabytes per second typically.
SSD data transfer rate at the rate of 170 megabytes per second typically.
Although SSD are slow when to compared to small file writes, they have a constant read and write rate.
At Cebit 2009, OCZ demonstrated a 1 TB flash SSD using a PCI Express x8 interface. It achieves a maximum write speed of 654MB/s and maximum read speed of 712MB/s
Wow!