Anybody using expresscard memory card for SSD?

It's occurred to me to use my ExpressCard/34 slot to expand/speed up my MBP by purchasing a 32GB ExpressCard/34 Solid State Disk. The idea would be to run all my system and primary applications on this Solid State Drive. Is there any reasons not to do this? Can you boot from a SSD in the Expresscard slot? Will this be any faster or use less battery than the original Hard Drive?

I currently have the Expresscard 32GB Transcend SSD in the slot. I use it for my pictures and will most likely be using it to eventually store my iTunes library as the two should free up almost 20GB of space on my hard disk. It is important to note i have only 20GB used on a 200GB drive.
My opinion is that the card itself runs much slower than the 5200RPM drive that came with the MacBook Pro. In terms of transferring files it even appears to run slower than a USB 2.0 external hard drive. For me it is not an option to boot from it as I make sure to maintain plenty of space on the internal drive, if you are desperate for space I would assume it would be an acceptable option, but from my experience it does appear to run slower than the internal hard disk.
That being said, if you do decide to do it, or anyone else has done it or has input I would be more than thankful to hear responses.
Hope that was atleast mildly helpful.
Best of luck.

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