I've had my SSD for almost a month, and I honestly cannot see what all the hype is about. Its maybe 5 seconds faster in game loading times at the most, but basically everything else you do after you logon to Windows sees little to no performance increase. Boot time and logon time at least see significant improvements, but it hardly justifies my $100 purchase of a 120GB drive. CPU helps performance MUCH more overall from my experiences, from boot time to launching apps to game loading times. Either I am doing something wrong, or SSDs are overrated as hell. I have used both Windows 8 and Windows 7, and SSD performance does not change, only the normal differences such as Windows 8's faster boot time, file transfer, ect.
Chrystal Disk Mark scores:
Crucial M4 128GB: http://i.imgur.com/aiok6V6.png
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB: http://i.imgur.com/IdDPmo0.png
Chrystal Disk Mark scores:
Crucial M4 128GB: http://i.imgur.com/aiok6V6.png
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB: http://i.imgur.com/IdDPmo0.png