SSD Hard Drives and Illustrator CS5.  Do they work well together?

Anybody using a SSD drive... along with Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop?
Jus wondering if there would be any performance/bug issues with this combination?  Would like to hear your experiences with SSD Drives where Adobe Illustrator is concerned.
Thanks.

My notebook's HDD drive crashed a year ago, and I replaced it with a pair of internal SSD's.  The performance increase is breathtaking.  There's no problem with applications because they're insulated from the underlying hardware by Windows and the drive controller chip.  As far as apps are concerned, they're just using a storage drive.
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