SSD drives and Visual Studio IDE. Big improvements? Real usage stories, no theory

Question

I want to go for Windows 7 + Intel SSD drives to speed up my Visual Studio 2008 development cycle.

The areas I want to speed up are:

• Compile/

Answer 1

I just bought one and the only regret I have is not buying an SSD any earlier.

Compilation times have been ok before already, but now the whole IDE is much more responsive. And it's not only Visual Studio, but also other applications. It's just so much easier to stay in flow when the whole system works this quickly.