*sigh*
The 10,000th off-topic thread, squandered on this?
Let's see if I can salvage this by threadjacking my own post.
I had mostly used the 120GB in the SSD (OCZ VERTEX 2) and that was without having loaded bootcamp back on after replacing the hard drive.
So, I ordered another SSD and an MCE media bay to put in my 13"MPB. MCE also had a deal for 8GB of ram, so I popped for that as well.
The second SSD is the same model and size as the first.
Not sure what happened but the boot time accelerated beyond what it had been. Let me go recheck the time to boot again... About 12 sec. The busy wheel took only three cycles.
Not sure why, but that seems shorter than it had been. There were three changes:
1) Ram 4GB > 8GB
2) Removed sperdrive
3) Added second SSD (not raided, yet.)
P.S. Yes Mark I still need to update the FW on the first drive.
I was finally able to get a machine setup that would run the linux updater. It worked on the new drive but failed on the old one.
The windows updater just would not even see either drive as being attached to my desktop under win7. Not when attached via USB or to a sata port on the MB.