It results in a performance increase everywhere and is apparently "well worth it" when you compare an equivalent cost for upgrading a CPU, etc.
With that said, I'd check to see if your current read/write speeds are being tasked by the apps/workflow you use (use Activity Monitor or similar), if you're constantly maxing out then you'll really notice the upgrade, etc.
Good point. Different users will notice different levels of benefits.
It should make all booting ops faster - anywhere there's data being read from teh drive.
For me, Visual Studio is a massive whore for drive access. It does lots of background operations that just don't happen in the background on a slow machine. With an SSD drive generating designer files or background compilation and other stuff will all be sped up versus my current 7200 drive. The more disk use the more the benefits. If you have 32gb of ram you might notice less benefit. If you do lots of audio recording you might notice less benfit (SSD performs on par or possibly slower than 10k Velociraptor drive when doing some forms of writing).
@hippy
Good point. Different users will notice different levels of benefits.
It should make all booting ops faster - anywhere there's data being read from teh drive.
For me, Visual Studio is a massive whore for drive access. It does lots of background operations that just don't happen in the background on a slow machine. With an SSD drive generating designer files or background compilation and other stuff will all be sped up versus my current 7200 drive. The more disk use the more the benefits. If you have 32gb of ram you might notice less benefit. If you do lots of audio recording you might notice less benfit (SSD performs on par or possibly slower than 10k Velociraptor drive when doing some forms of writing).