I think it is important to note that it is not only FSX initial loading time that is faster when on SSD. More importantly all the files needed when flying are loaded much faster too. As an example you land on a big airport and at some point you quickly move your head to the right to look at the terminal area, where lots of AI planes are parked. In that very moment FSX needs to load lots of texture files into the RAM, and that's precisely where SSD can make a difference. Instead of reading those texture files off the HDD at approx. 60mb/s this is done with 400 to 500mb/s, not to mention the reduced access time of 0.1ms instead of around 8ms. Now multiply that with lots of other textures like buildings and terrain, and you'll start to realise why the flying experience can be so much smoother when for example flying with TrackIR in a VC. Yes the FPS will not directly increase when using a SSD, but smoothness can be equally important during a flight. Or how about huge mesh bgl-files being dozens of megabytes in size, or photo textures when blasting along a photo realistic scenery at Mach 1... It is quite clear that a mechanical HDD is the last remaining bottle neck with todays systems. If you buy the latest i7, clock it to 5Ghz and add the GTX580, then you're not getting the full potential from your system if you still use a HDD. SSD is the way to go if you can afford it. Yes it is still quite expensive, but not as bad as it used to be a year ago. And half a year from now things will look different once again.I have both my OS and FSX on a SSD and will never want to go back.Cheers,Markus

I just moved back from a 60gb SSD to a 500gig SATA 2 7200. I've kept windows 7 on its own 60gb SSD.Takes slightly longer to load but I am glad of all the free space I have. I was upto 45gig on the SSD and I am in process of reinstalling ORBX scenery which swallows quite a bit of space!Flying around and spinning the camera etc I can't notice a difference with texture loading. I mustn't have had any probs to start with so for me the only difference is the loading time when starting a flight. I can live with the extra 20 seconds of waiting for the extra 440gb space!!Merry xmas