Solid State Drives,a bad idea?

Being on the bleeding edge is never a great idea.

The SSD seems to be a great idea when compared to traditional drives,but oh them gotchas that raise their ugly heads.

I have a customer with a 64 gig solid state drive on a Sony Vaio using Outlook 2007 , who was complaining about hangs and slowness when doing everyday tasks in the program.

I thought it might have been Google desktop search,as it has caused issues in the past with Outlook PST files not being closed correctly.

But after a little bit of research,I come upon this little diddy that was buried in M$ KB 940226:

Are you running a computer that has a Solid State Drive (SSD)?
If you are running Outlook 2007 on a computer that has a solid state drive
(SSD), you may experience frequent pauses when you perform typical
operations in Outlook. The Outlook product team is aware of this issue and
is investigating solutions for a future release.

If your computer is running on a computer that has both an SSD and a non-SSD
(rotational) hard disk, you can reduce the frequency of the pauses by moving
the .ost file or the .pst files to the non-SSD drive.

I talked to the folks at M$ about when a fix might be forthcoming,and the answer was in the next release of Outlook.

So folks ,buyer beware!