SSD vs Velociraptor

Helixx

Getting some cash back from the government and I'm putting together a new workstation for at home. Going with the Intel i920 with the Asus P6T and some 1600 Tri-Channel ram. Wondering if anyone has any first hand experience with some of the new drives out there.
They all kinda boast that they're the best and depending which review you read it's pretty close one way or the other. I mostly deal with 3ds max, photoshop and zbrush for working and I run a pair of monitors so more often then not I have 1 or more of those programs running. I have other drives for storage and such but want a lighting quick OS setup.
Opinions, suggestions?

EarthQuake

one thing that i would consider is that SSD are going to be silent

Helixx

haha ya as of now my room sounds like there's a jet hovering nearby, not sure how much that has to do with my hard drives but I'm sure it would help.

Xoliul

Might wanna read this if you're thinking about SSD's:
http://benjaminnitschke.com/2009/02/25/WhyCheapSSDSucksForVisualStudio.aspx
http://benjaminnitschke.com/2009/03/20/ExperiencesWithTheIntelsX25M80GBSSDAndCompilingNativeCodeInVisualStudio.aspx

I know it's from a programmers perspective but you should keep it in mind.

Helixx

Food for thought I guess. Although if my computer is compiling code, someone shoot me.

Unleashed

I bought 3 ocz vertexes(or vertices?) and put em in raid0. its wierd having to manage files(only 90gigs for my main drive) but I do feel it was worth the price and trouble to setup. booting, installing & loading programs is *alot* faster, also switching subtools in zbrush is alot lot lot faster as well.

michi.be

I have a 300GB veloiraptor here and its a good HDD. Photoshop starts around 3sec from clicking the button to be able to open the first document.

you can work without lags and mving around files on the HD is fast too.

If I would build up my system now i would get one of theese intel SDD's combined with a common HDD.

a velociraptor is good but its not a wonder child. I also put my money into 8 gigs of ram which was more woth then using a superfast HDD in my opinion.