Hi Charles,

Replacing the primary drive in my Lenovo T500 with an SDD drive over 12 months ago has been the best hardware upgrade I have ever made. Cold boot times went from over 3 minutes to useable to less than 20 seconds. VS2010 performance is no longer an issue.

I moved the existing HDD to a caddy in the ultraslim bay and installed an Intel SSD as the primary drive. I did a fresh install of W7 64bit on the SSD and can now boot to either drive if required via a function key on startup.

A caveat though - make sure you have adequate backups. SSDs seem more prone to failure than HDDs - see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html.

Mine failed after 13 months and was replaced under warranty. Reinstalling, restoring and reconfiguring was a pain but once you get used to the performance you wouldn't go back,

regards,

Andy