Installing Solaris onto an SSD drive

Hi,
first of all, sorry if this has been answered before. I couldn't find any similar topic while searching, but then again, I'm no forum wiz..
I'm thiking about installing Solaris 10 onto an SSD drive (i.e. flash based storage), so I wondered if anyone had any experience in this regard? Should I use any particular file system? Will the slow write performance make the system unusable?
Any tips on good SSD's (preferrably in the ExpressCard format) would also be greatly appreciated.

I've seen many reports similar to the one linked by Head_on_a_Stick. The consensus of them make it pretty clear to me that the special concerns with SSD drives simply no longer apply to any modern (major brand / reasonable quality) SSD. If you were installing on a pocket usb flash drive, they'd probably still apply as those are made to be disposable.
For real world experience, I got an SSD just over a year ago and it is the only storage on the laptop I use all day at home and at work. I did nothing special in the install. I used a fdisk, which documentation at the time indicated that fdisk detects SSDs and handles alignment suitably. I probably spend far too much time on the computer working on documents and analyzing data at work and writing/compiling code or watching netflix at home (ewaller would tell me to get outside more), but in just over a year of being up-and-running for the majority of every day, my SSD is still just fine, and I anticipate it will still be so next year, and on.
EDIT: in case it's relevant this is a Corsair brand SSD. I don't know what is popular or highly rated, but Corsair was a frequently reviewed big-name brand that has been well tested (as are the Kingstons mentioned above, and Samsung in the OP), but within that category it was pretty low end. I don't recall the model name, but it was one of the cheaper ones on the market.
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