Regular reader will recall that I have been considering an upgrade to an SSD.

I finally took the plunge and bought a Crucial M4 SSD. The price has really dropped on SSD but they are still 3 times the price of a spindle drive.

Just to make it more interesting I decided to install Lion at the same time that I went solid state. There is method in this madness, if it all went down the pan the whole thing is reversible by refitting the old drive.

On the day that Lion was released I downloaded the app. I made a bootable flash drive from the app, then (deep breath and throw the warranty out) opened up my MacBook Pro and swapped out the drive.

Booting from the flash drive was easy, a very fast format of the SSD and I was installing Lion. It took about 20 minutes.

Once installed I used Migration Assistant and Time Machine Backup to pull over my personal files. I downloaded all my apps off the web so that I had the latest 10.7 compatible versions.

I am good to go. All quite painless.

The MacBook Pro boots ridiculously fast with the SSD.

From cold to fully operational is 20 seconds. If I let Lion reopen all my apps it slows to 25 seconds.

Awesome! Go do it people, SSDs rock!