I'm using one on a very active database and it's been quite amazing. I would say an SSD allows you to either cut your query times in half or double your queries

I'm using one on a very active database and it's been quite amazing. I would say an SSD allows you to either cut your query times in half or double your queries. They are that impressive. I don't have before/after benchmarks but I can tell you we built a beefy server with an SSD because our SCSI disk based server was falling on it's face and now the load is very minimal.