[mmetzger]

It can definitely save you some time (SSDs in general, not just this one,) but how much depends on the operations in question.

Example workflow - SQL Server, approx 1TB working set - putting it all on SSD (a RAID set of consumer level SSDs) basically doubled our operations per second. Modifying the algorithm a bit while still on the SSD gave 20x speed up.

2nd example - SQL Server, approx 10TB of RAID Prosumer SSD vs same amt of 15k SAS drives: SSD = 8x speedup.

3rd example - SSD as swap on linux operations - performance dropped by 10%. This mostly had to do with the SSD used and its role.

In other words - it's not a magic bullet but it can definitely buy you some breathing room.