Yep, c drive hasn't been touched - but the ghosting is probably a red herring - but it was absolutely the same time as the problem started.
The SSD drive is fast - not blindingly, but pretty quick. You must have seen some of the YouTube demos where they chain and RAID them. Mine isn't like that, but start up, and things like starting office, and some I/O intensive applications, are considerably quicker. I bought a 64Gb Crucial which has all my apps, plus I've tried to shoehorn some other big files (like my .itl iTunes database) onto it. I've also got some recent games which I downloaded which I barely use, but when I do, I sync them from a backup onto the C drive to get the loading time benefits of the SSD - which is quite significant.
I only have 2Gb of memory (older m/b, won't support more) so I suppose the SSD is somewhat making up for the lack of memory. The pagefile is on C, which I know isn't best practice as the disks have a finite life, but they will be cheap enough to be disposable before too long. I made sure I got the later technology drive (v2 I think) which, with Windows 7. takes care of cleaning up after deletion much better. I just returned from the States with an 80Gb Intel SSD and a SATA slide-in 3.5" disk caddy (as I seem to have a surfeit of 1Tb drives...). I'm thinking I might use the 80Gb as C drive and either sell the 64 or use it as D, especially as I can now hot swap 1Tb drives. I need to analyse my data and see what I need to keep "online". Part of the SSD strategy is my wider attempt at achieving more savings in energy costs (albeit probably not a cost effective one!).
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