Interesting report about switching HD to SSD with Firebird
An interesting “report” about the results of switching from Hard-Drives to SSD technology in a Firebird sever machine was posted in Firebird-Devel list by Poul Dige. In his specific case, the improvements of speed was very good. You can read the message here.
quite expensive ~ 7000 $ for 80G ones
i did my yen to $ or euro transformations and price for 1G is quite high
http://kakaku.com/pc/ssd/ma_2410/
For normal users i would go with intel or cheaper solutions ocz, samsung
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ocz_agility_120gb&num=1