Crucial Launches 64GB RealSSD C300 at $149.99
Well, it's sort of affordable.
Crucial is rolling out an SSD that it hopes will be able to capture those on the cusp of buying an SSD, but waiting for a lower price. The speedy RealSSD C300, which boasts a sequential 355MB/s read speed, will now have a 64GB baby brother for $149.99.
"The 64GB C300 drive is a natural extension of our award-winning Crucial RealSSD C300 product line. This aggressively priced 64GB C300 drive makes SSD technology more affordable than ever, delivers durability for mobile computing, and makes it a compelling boot drive for desktop PCs," said Robert Wheadon, Lexar Media senior worldwide SSD product manager.
In terms of cost per GB, it's still expensive, but if you're looking for a blazing fast medium for your boot drive and system files, this is one of the most attractive offerings at the moment.

My boot is faster, but when you have to wait for BIOS anyway it's not that much of a plus.
Do I here Raid 0
Its 6Gig Sata
http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1
My boot is faster, but when you have to wait for BIOS anyway it's not that much of a plus.
Buy 2x, RAID 0, that's plenty of space for Windows 7 regardless of what flavor you use.
Crucial has since fixed that. The firmware they have now for these SSDs is functioning correctly and they are performing as they are s'posed to.
Really? Hmm...I have Ultimate installed, Office 2010, CS5 and Elements 8, 3 PC games, all the misc programs (Foobar2000, KMplayer, Firerox, Chrome, etc.) so basically a fully loaded system to which I might only add a few more small programs, and yet my drive reads 420 GB free of 465. So, 45GB for a fully loaded system drive... I offset all other files to dedicated drivers. Anyways, no, I think 64GB is big enough!
Also, I think 64 GB is fine for a system drive - just have a second drive for all your data (with notebooks you can use an external usb drive or eSata enclosure with a USB power supply).
You don't need an SSD for storing data, they will work fine on traditional HDDs. These types of SSDs (30GB, 40GB, 64GB) are meant primarily as boot drives, you put your OS on there and maybe few important programs and that is it, it speeds up boot time and OS load times. It's not like you need these types of read speeds to play a video, I have regular HDDs and even starting up a 6.4GB video, I click and a sec later program opens and starts playing, SSD not needed for that.