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 upgraded a laptop to SSD by cloning the original 5400 RPM hard drive (surprisingly a painless process). I used a stopwatch to capture before and after metrics. (Dell Inspiron 1525, 3 GB of RAM, Windows Vista 32-bit)

Boot/Startup of Windows

63 seconds --> 52 seconds

Loading My ASP.NET Visual Studio Solution

In other words, the time from clicking on the .sln file to when Visual Studio is fully loaded and you can begin coding. I performed this once before taking measurements because the first time always takes longer than subsequent times.

16 seconds --> 8 seconds.

Debugging

F5 to the home page fully loaded.

5 seconds --> 3.5 seconds