While SSDs are being discussed, what about SSD accelerator drives??

I am in no rush to buy a new DAW but I have started browsing and UK DAW manufacture Inta-Audio are offering this option. The drives are Corsair Accelerator Series SSD 40 or 60 GB . There is a claim "to boost system performance up to 5x"  Not Inta's words, they come straight from the Corsair web-site

. Are they worth the cost or is it snake oil?

I got my ssd for 50p per gigabyte. All warrantied up and backed up on the hard drive.
248 gb serves well for storing OS, sonar and songs and samples. Once done its easy to transfer them across to the hd and start again once you fill it up. Well worth using it for audio as well as OS and program's. dimension pro loads up the big banks unbelievably quick.

My point on ssd is that it will make an average pc better, and a great pc astonishing. Especially for music applications.

[From Silicon Audio]
The only thing I would change with that rig is swap the Seagate drives with Western Digital drives. I work in IT and have seen a truck-load of 1 to 3 TB Seagate drives die in the last 18 months.

Yeah, the guys at ADK told me that the Seagates run a little quieter. In my former (MOBO just died) 32-bit system, I was running all WD drives (3 of them were VelociRaptors). Never had a drive fail on me. I'm not going to worry about he life span of the drives. I will just clone all of them ASAP. Then I will try to at least clone my sample/audio drives monthly, if alot of changes have been made. And I will probably do my O/S more than that. I use a tool called beyondCompare to compare disks and files. Most of the time I will only see a few new files added or removed. So after I clone, just adding or removing onesy or twosy files on the clone disc is a breeze -- So I don't have to literally re-clone the whole drive again repeatedly.

BTW, I haven't been on the forums in a long time. What happened to the forum software? The reply-to stuff is not working the same where you can reply right to the person that you want to, and include there quote. I had to manually copy/paste the quote above. The .. html tag is no longer working

  Awesome, Bristol_Jonesey. Yeah, converting from gbp to usd, I am in the same ballpark.