SSD Boot and Samples?

[solar]

I am considering upgrading my laptop. Mac Book Pro 2.4GHz, 4GB Ram. I currently run a couple of SATA external drives for Samples and Recording. With the Advent of the new SSD's I was wondering if should just get a 250 GB SSD. Would I get good performance if I used it as my boot drive and for my Samples? The throughput would suggest that It shouldn't have a hard time reading the samples, but not sure if there are other conflicts. I want to use it as my VI module, and I don't want to have to lug around a bunch of drives. I'll probably just get a duet or something for my interface. It will pretty much only be running Komplete 5/6.

Any insight?

[newrigel]

I am considering upgrading my laptop. Mac Book Pro 2.4GHz, 4GB Ram. I currently run a couple of SATA external drives for Samples and Recording. With the Advent of the new SSD's I was wondering if should just get a 250 GB SSD. Would I get good performance if I used it as my boot drive and for my Samples? The throughput would suggest that It shouldn't have a hard time reading the samples, but not sure if there are other conflicts. I want to use it as my VI module, and I don't want to have to lug around a bunch of drives. I'll probably just get a duet or something for my interface. It will pretty much only be running Komplete 5/6.

Any insight?

Sure you'd get good performance. The 2.5 inch Velociraptors are just as fast (pretty darn close) and cost efficient too... SSD's scream in RAID 0 configurations but the MBP can't do an internal RAID and the externals have the FW bottleneck so your limited.

[solar]

The Velociraptors don't fit and I'm trying to keep the Firewire bus open for an interface, I may even get an 896HD. Then my express card slot would be open for a UAD solo. So I guess it looks like I may be getting an SSD. Thanks.

[newrigel]

The Velociraptors don't fit and I'm trying to keep the Firewire bus open for an interface, I may even get an 896HD. Then my express card slot would be open for a UAD solo. So I guess it looks like I may be getting an SSD. Thanks.

They won't huh? Look here. There's a 2.5 inch model. The SSD is a better option but the bang for the buck with the Velociraptor's hard to beat but if you have the $$ by all means go SSD... but the vr's are really hard to beat for a conventional HD.

[solar]

They're too thick. If you go to barefeats they did a shoot out with the veloci's and some ssd's and other drives. They say it won't fit, as it's not as thin as a conventional 2.5".