Good Idea?

[LenovoT61B]

I plan to (when Windows 7 comes out) to run both an SSD an a HDD. I am going to use SATA HDD adapter and buy a 64GB SSD and use it only for my OS and applications. Then I will use my 7200RPM driver for all my data/music/pictures.

Will I notice a performance gain in terms of how everything loads up and the speed of opening applications as apose to using everything on a regular HDD and not a SSD?

How would I go about reformatting the HDD I currently have in such a way that it takes away the partions and that I can use it for data such as pictures ext?

 

[Kursah]

In windows installer you can delete your partitions and then format the drive and create partitions (I prefer Vista installer). As-far-as SSD's go, 7 + SSD makes sense, I hear SSD's are only getting better, I'm gonna try and wait till summer/fall when more SSD's will hopefully have more cache to help with stuttering (from what little I've read), I know there's some tuning that must be done to an OS to make the SSD fly, but from what many have said it's worth it. I just find it hard to justify getting a 64GB SSD at the same cost of 2 WD6400AAKS drives that in RAID will fly faster than an SSD, except in seek, where the SSD is king atm.