I hear you about waiting for things

Vista boots in ~10-12 seconds, it was ~8 seconds in Raid 0 config. Everything else is just about instant load, that includes programs like Photoshop, Illustrator etc., and gaming.

But back to the spiking issue, that concerns me. I do hate these benching programs tho as I do not feel they give us the real picture of SSD's.

All I can say is you gotta try em. Once you go SSD you will never look back