I've heard so many horror stories about the SSDs exhibiting wonky behavior or just failing totally that I have put my SSD upgrade plans on indefinite hold. My five-year-old 80 GB IDE system drive just keeps plugging along.

Peripherally related to system drive upgrades, last night I was surprised to find out that Windows Vista (except for the "Home" edition) has built into it a cloning utility that will create a restore file (either on an external hard drive or on a series of DVD data disks) that will allow one to recover from a system drive failure, just like Acronis or Norton Ghost.

But you guys probably already knew that, didn't you.

tanstaafl.