Poll: Are you using SSDs?

How is it going with the Solid State Disk revolution? Are you already using SSDs? If you are what is your experience so far? Happy with the performance? Happy with the price/performance?

I've got an SSD in my macbook, and would recommend it to anyone who wants a faster machine. While expensive, SSDs are still worth it in my opinion - in many cases, putting an SSD in an existing machine makes a bigger difference than replacing the machine, and is cheaper.

I'm a bit confused by this poll's "in production" wording. I have a SSD in my laptop, but I read "in production" as "in use in the server room" (maybe that's just my background in web hosting coming out.)

I'll answer "in production" with the caveat that important data should never be stored on ANY single disk or in any single location. (You'd think that would be obvious, but unfortunately, it's not, or else hard drive recovery services wouldn't do such a great business.)

I'm quite happy with the SSD in my laptop. I don't get any better battery life, but it does make the laptop "feel" faster.

I would absolutely recommend SSDs. It's one of the few times you can swap out a component in your computer and notice a performance boost. They are getting better very quickly though, so one big decision is when to pull the trigger. Every few months a new generation of SSDs with better firmware seems to come out. I've switched my laptop and home computer to SSDs.

I've got an SSD in my dev machine. It's an earlier intel drive and I'm using WinXP. It has really fast read performance, making otherwise slow svn operations on my working copy effectively instant. The write performance is atrocious. When doing any significant writing, it tends to hang my whole system for 30 seconds out of every 90. I can't even move the mouse when it happens. Compiling does it, so I tend to do builds on a normal HDD. I suspect if I had trim support and plenty of empty space it wouldn't be a big deal.