NO SCOOBY MACS R BETTARER BCUZ NO VIRUSES AND SAFE AND GOOD!
/trolling
I've had an SSD for around 6 months and haven't seen any degradation. You do need to make some tweaks though to prevent extraneous writes. For example, limiting page file, changing where certain files are stored, disabling defragmentatio
n, etc. You also probably will have to change the default location of your library (which isn't hard) and change the bios setting (I don't even have any clue what the setting is called, I just know you have to change it) from SATA to AHCI. Oh and you'll want Windows 7 so you can use TRIM, which helps prevent performance degradation.
I don't want to put you off from a SSD, it takes maybe an hour of extra work to set up an is definitely worth it. My windows load times were reduced by about 50% and core programs I installed on the SSD (firefox, office, etc) load MUCH MUCH faster. You can look at the read/write speeds and see they're much better than traditional HDDs, and this is true, but the real advantage is the virtually non-existent access times.
EDIT:
You should get eight of these in RAID 0:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227517By the way, see if you can snag this case: