thought others might benefit from this....
I just bought a $385 128GB Solid state disk hard drive from newegg.com last week. I've been waiting for prices to drop to this level so I could test improvements. SSD drives are supposed to increase performance several fold, last 280+ years without a failure, use less power and generate less heat.
WOW is all I can say after I did a quick transfer of existing laptop image to the new SSD disk using the 15 day trial of Acronis Disk Tools. The new drive makes Vista seem snappy - didn't think this would ever happen. I plan to put this disk in my server next to increase the entire office performance.
Here is what I bought:
Patriot Torq SSD 128GB disk Here is the tool I used to transfer the disk image:
Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 
