What is a good size SSD to use in the 2011 MBP's?

I have heard many people say they buy the 115, 128, 240, 512GB SSD's to use as his or her start up or boot drive... I know SSD's are faster than HDD's but what is the most logical size SSD to use as a boot disk? I am wanting to get an SSD and keep music, movies, and other files on my HDD in a data doubler. Thanks for any input in advance!

Drawbacks of SSD
1: Can not be securely erased, the driver won't allow it.
2: Limited writes (answer to #1)
3: Can't be used for large file transfer on/off to take advantage of the speed (see #2)
4: Prohibitive costs, need high speed and high storage for Bootcamp/Triple booting Mac's (OS X, Linux , Windows)
This is the fastest, largest, SDD money can buy (click to see)
A rough in the head calculation with the drive above, provided it had a external drive just as fast to offload data (no bottlenecks), could offload 500GB of data in about 15 minutes verses a hour with a 7,200 RPM drive.
One drive is $1800 and the other is $100-$200.
One is not securely erasable and the other is.
One has limited writes and the other has no practical limit.
One would have to have pretty deep pockects to throw away $1800 SSD drives like tissue paper to utilize their awesome speed for the only practical thing it's good for, transfering huge amounts of files quickly.

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