solid state hard drives

Hear, Hear!!
(although I confess I have riduculously large projects sometimes with 150+ tracks in 24/96 to 5.1)

Fredo, I am sorry but life is far too short to set up stuff that is barely out of the test labs - I need stability.
Mirroring system drives is not my idea of a good way forward either - the more complex a system the higher the chance of a failure.