Quote Originally Posted by BenchZowner View Post
I guess you're missing some parts here.
Let me make it clearer:

Have a system with a Quad-Core, a reasonably fast HDD ( let's say Samsung's F1 1TB ), 3GBs of RAM, and Windows XP ( I'm not even dragging Vista in this ), and have a single ( or more as you wish ) WinRAR instances compressing data, at the same time have PhotoShop running some filters on a banner or sth, while you are coding & creating templates ( in both Coding & WYSIWYG modes ) in DreamWeaver.
Does your system feel snappy ? Is it responsive and fast ?
How long does it take to alt tab for example from DreamWeaver to a working ( in progress ) PhotoShop window ?
Alt-tabbing is instant, the disk plays no role in this, unless you are so low on RAM that you get swapping to the drive (I have swap file turned off).
Yes, alt-tabbing feels instant, the editing feels instant.
Is it responsive? Hell with 200% CPU usage, what do you expect? The disk is not a player in this case, trust me.

What kind of difference does a good SLC SSD do in this scenario ?
None:
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15931/8
unless you're talking of Fusion IoDrive or X25-E only. From the page above, X25-M and non-X25-E SLC SSDs are slower than VRaptor during multitasking.

Quote Originally Posted by Speederlander View Post
I run a pair of the 7500 pros in RAID 0, soon to just break them up and use each for a VM. Those should be perfectly speedy to "feel" a major change. And that's my point, do you feel a slight improvement with SSDs? Yeah, sure. Is the vast benchmark improvement reflective of how they feel compared to the fastest (SAS and velociraptor) platter drives? No. At a certain point, when something gets fast enough, a lot of the improvement becomes undetectable.
See link above. Mtron's are in the Samsung/OCZ SLC range, the X25-E would change the picture.

It seems you're doing mostly desktop use though, for that SSDs don't make a whole or any difference vs. VRaptor.