[utku_karatas]

I couldn't resist the hype and bought the cheapest no-name (A-Data, anyone?) 32GB second-hand SSD. I haven't seen a noticable performance improvement since but FWIW the silence - getting rid of the disk thrashing - is worth alone the price of this thing.

[listic]

I think A-Data is more than "no" name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-data

I too bought a 32GB SSD from SanDisk a year ago to replace hard drive in my IBM ThinkPad X60s to get silence and shock resistance (I guess I'm paranoid on those issues, but it made me happy) Sequential write perfomance is noticeably less than even in 5400 rpm drives, but I didn't care much; it's okay for me.

Yet I would call people who use SSD in their computers early adopters; the outlook for SSDs is optimistic but I guess it will be a few years at best till SSDs will be able to become mainstream.