Mikegg - not sure if you got the answer you were looking for but SSDs are very fast. In my newest PC I installed a 250 GB Samsung 840 drive as the C drive where the OS and my primary apps live. Poser 9 loads and exits much quicker but, in my experience, the greatest hurdle is that it's still a 32bit app. I received out of memory errors several times this weekend working on Poser files that, in my opinion, weren't too complicated.  This PC has 24gb of RAM. Tomshardware dot com website has several good articles on SSD tech and reviews on the latest drives. Honestly, the only drawback to these drives IMHO is that are are too small and still a little expensive.