My Win 7 DAW goes from a cold start to ready to use in 20 seconds. BIAB takes a little longer, but Real Tracks generate in seconds. I do recommend a larger drive than my four-year-old 64-Gb OZN, not so you can put more stuff on it, but because SSDs perform better with more free space. Somehow my überDAW's performance index has gone from 7.3 to 5.9, with the SSD being indicated as the bottleneck. Because of this, I install noncritical programs to my 1 Tb 7,200-RPM D: drive. SSDs also have a limited number of read-write cycles, thus a shorter life cycle. Despite this, I could not recommend an SSD more highly.

My DAW is a home-brew with an Intel 2500K 3.3 GHz quad-core liquid-cooled CPU (to keep noise to whisper level), 16 Gb of DD3 RAM, drives as above, a 2 Gb Zotac/Nvidia graphics card, and more, in an NZXT brand "Silent" model case.

HTH,

Richard


"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."