Matt. Me too. It's been about a year since installing an Intel SSD boot drive. Initially with XP. I added an installation of Windows 7 in a dual boot to my DAW a few months ago. W7 blows away XP imho.

SSD performance is stellar and I'd never go back to platter HDD for my OS drive.

For anyone venturing into SSD / DAW territory, this is what I did:
Drive 0: = SSD Operating System(s) and program files
Drive 1: = HDD "Write" drive
Drive 2: = HDD "Read" drive

Drive 0, C:/ and D:/, OS system(s) on Intel SSD (I have a XP and W7 on separate parititons as dual boot keeping aXP for old apps W7 doesn't play nice with.) P:/Programs (biab,RB,NI Bandstand, Kontakt)

Drive 1, WD 7200RPM platter HDD - first partition T:/ TEMP and TMP folders, 20GB with a AudioRender folder for rendering audio/projects; 2nd partition - M:/ My Documents folder {XP}

With Windows 7 I also moved Temp and TMP folders to individual folders on T:/ and all the W7 Libraries off the OS system drive to folders on M:/.

(google sevenforums and tweakhound for tutorials on moving these folders off the main os drive)

Drive 2, WD 7200RPM platter HDD - First partition, S:/Sample, (duh, for sample libraries i.e. Bandstand, Kontakt); 2nd partition, R:/RealTracks, Drums

Space on the back of the drives used for backups and data archives.

Note 1 :If you have the extra drive channels, you could further devide the folders for Temp, Audio/projects, etc. among individual dedicated drives.

Note 2: SSD's are fast for read/write Page File, so I leave that on the OS SSD fixed size = to RAM.

This setup has been working great for my DAW with XP pre-SSD, post-SSD; and W7-SSD.
As with any data management strategy, your preferences and mileage may vary.

Last edited by Lawrence.1955; 04/29/11 08:04 PM.