I just replaced the 5400rpm drive in my Macbook Pro with an OCZ Vertex2 SSD. The performance improvements for many things are dramatic. I did some very unscie

I just replaced the 5400rpm drive in my Macbook Pro with an OCZ Vertex2 SSD. The performance improvements for many things are dramatic. I did some very unscientific before-and-after measurements.. * Cold boot (Power button to login screen): 79s HDD, 76s SSD (didn't improve much, surprisingly) * Login (Login -> Desktop menu bars loaded): 16s HDD, 6s SSD * Firefox start: 11s HDD, 3s SSD * OpenOffice start: 11s HDD, 3s SSD * Metasploit msfconsole start (i.e. loading lots of ruby code): 22s HDD, 12s real A lot of other things are noticeably faster. Searching for things in Spotlight is almost instantaneous. Previously, there could be a few seconds delay between typing a filename and seeing it appear in the results. Running find over large directories is noticeably faster as well. Time Machine backups are way faster, since it takes much less time to determine what has changed since the last backup. I was a little hesitant to get an SSD knowing that OSX doesn't have TRIM. We'll see how it goes. I'm hoping Apple adds support soon. If not, I might be doing a secure erase and re-install periodically.