Today, do SSD's outperform HDD in non-durability capaciities

[indigo0086]

I was browsing newegg and saw that the prices for a lot of Solid State have gone down since I first heard about it. A year or so ago you could get 80gb for maybe 250+ and today it's 100+ less. Usuaslly as prices go down on new technology over time, the technology tends to get more refined. I was wondering if it's worth the price to get a SSD for installing the OS and Applications. Right now I have a 30gb partition with my OS and program files, and another drive for storage. I was wondering if SSD's have anything to offer in a desktop since I don't really need to worry about durability.

I see the read and write speeds are incredible, but in a real life environment is it a significant upgrade?

[Lespaul20]

The performance is usually a little better in terms of read but write speeds are not significantly better yet. However, lower priced units won't perform nearly as good as higher end units but then the prices tend to be much higher. Right now, $/gb probably isn't worth it with lower end models and $/performance is still quite high on higher end models.

[Force Flow]

1) They're still quite expensive
2) They haven't been refined yet. They're still more or less in "beta"