So, one question for all of your HD gurus out there.

I was planning on getting a new PC based on the AMD 890FX chipset with the newer SB850 SouthBridge.

I am mainly looking for a nice performance gain after not upgrading my PC for over 4+ years (last major upgrade was to upgrade from 2x512MB DDR1 to performance 2x1GB DDR1 G.Skill rams and upgraded a S939 Venice to a dual-core Opteron 144)

Was actually planning to get a Velociraptor 150GB as my main OS drive in this next build of mine, but then accidentally stumbled upon Anandtech's lengthy yet informative SSD article.. and my heart ached for an SSD.

Question:
As I'm mainly looking for day-to-day performance, would I benefit more from an SSD or 2xWD Velociraptors 150GB in Raid-0 (daily backups) in the following areas?

1. Multitasking multiple programs in background
2. Launching of applications
3. General 'snappier' feeling of running programs, etc.
4. Boot-up times (not so important as I can wait, but would be great for restarting PC)
5. Durability and longevity of the OS drive (quite important)

So, if the general comment is that SSDs are better, what SSDs would you recommend? I was actually looking at the locally available Intel X25-M G2 80GB SSDs as they are better performers over the cheaper X25-V 40GBs.

Or are there any other SSDs recommended that would give me a similar edge in faster performance, better random read/writes as well as low random access times?
For example, Anandtech's reviews on the Indilinx MLC seems to thrash the Intel's ones in sequential write speeds but how much does that translate to real-world snappy tests, as I'm coming from a mechanical HDD spinning @ 7200rpm, not coming from another SSD.

Or you could sway me back to the Velociraptors.

Thanks for the input.

This post has been edited by [Top-Gun]: May 29 2010, 02:17 PM

Thanks for the reply.
I actually saw both of those Youtube videos and was just wanting to know whether the SB850 hampers the performance of SSDs in anyway as compared to Intel's ICH10R solution. So I should hold out against the purchase and wait for the G3s to come out?