It's only a 30 GByte database, so perhaps small beer for most of you, but as an indication of SSD impact my development machine - over-clocked Intel i5-760 (4 core), 8 G RAM and a 90 G SSD, and costing about £700 - does a complete data build significantly faster than the production server, which is a recent-model dual Xeon (2x4 core, with hyperthreading) with 12G RAM and 6 x 15,000 Ultra-SCSI drives in a RAID array - and which cost £7.000. The SS 2008 database file is on the SSD, the log file on a separate 1T rotating drive. A large part of the performance increase is due to the SSD.