X200 Hard Drive -- SSD question

Greetings:
At  $830.00 over the "80GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm" default hard drive option, what advantages does a 64 GB hard drive have over any of the other choices?
If I go with Vista Business 64-bit, how much disk space will the operating system use?
If I went with a 7200rpm hard drive, how much faster is SSD?
For those who have already purchased an X300 or an X200 with SSD, how do you like the hard drive?
Other than being a no-moving parts hard drive, does SSD bring any other benefits to justify the increased cost?
Thank you.
Peter M. Abraham
Dynamic Net, Inc.

The read and write life of the SSD used in the X200 (Samsung unit) is tested to have twice to triple life of the normal HHD, giving it a life of about 20 to 30 years of continual use.
Higher power usage under idle state could be a possibility, so the power savings of SSD over normal HHD is only about 20% in many cases.
Vulnerability  of SSD is something you have to deal with, due to the fact that electrical currents are responsible for the read and write cycle, where as normal HDD use electromagnetic field. Also power outage problem is not something you have to particular worry about due to the existence of your laptop battery, which acts as UPS. 
The new SSD write time shouldn't be slower than the normal HDD.

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    Basically, I want a simple solution that allows me to have a fast (firewire 800 max as I'm using an iMac atm), media drive attached and which is backed up to a drive with redundancy, like a Drobo, and where I can change out that media drive without a problem and changes made on it are mirrored on the backup drive (but where data doesn't get deleted on the backup drive if I need to change out the media drive).  My data needs are met with the above mentioned drives and I don't yet need to start investing in more advanced systems to deal with what I'm doing, I just need a solution that is simple, doesn't require excessive time spent tweaking and monitoring things, and where my data is safe if a drive fails.
    Finally, I'm guessing if the above scenario is possible then I'll be connecting the G-Tech to the Firewire 800 port and the Drobo to the USB, but I thought I'd ask whilst I'm here whether anybody knows if you can daisy chain the Drobo to the G-Tech via Firewire and still have it operating as a separate backup drive using Time Machine; if this method is possible would people reccomend it over using the iMac's USB port?
    Many thanks in advance for any help or suggestions people can offer, and sorry that was such a huge ramble.

    I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place, but feel free to point me somewhere else if not.  I'm a professional photographer transitioning into some video work and am currently working out a media drive / backup drive solution to suit the needs of a one man band.  Currently I have a couple of 2TB MyBooks running, and backup from one to the other each night, which isn't the most elegant solution but has worked so far.  I've just ordered a Drobo and hard disks to give me a little more peace of mind, but because the Drobo isn't known for being the fastest solution in the world (at least the basic model isn't), I'm also purchasing a G-Tech Raid drive to use as my active media drive. 
    I'm hoping the following is possible and hoping someone can answer a couple of questions I have about using the following setup.  I plan to use Time Machine as a backup solution, which saves me continually having to copy and check files are all in the right place each night as I do at the moment when manually backing up.  I believe it's possible to have the G-Raid drive, which is where all media will be placed when importing, as part of a Time Machine backup that will put the contents of my iMac (which is not much, just core software) and the G-Raid onto the Drobo, and keep things updated when files are changed, updated or deleted. 
    The first thing I wanted to check is that I'm right in the assumption that the above scenario is not a problem? I'm guessing not as it seems lots of people use variances on this method.  But what I'm wondering is, what happens when I fill the 1 or 2 TB raid drive (G-tech), and want to change it out for another one, and the Drobo, which has more and expandable storage, is not full?  If I remove the G-Tech drive and replace it with a new one, will Time Machine just carry on as normal, leaving all the original data that was on the older drive untouched on the Drobo and still accessible in the future?  
    Is it better to partition the Drobo and create a section that is the same size as the current media drive I'm using (500gb, 1tb, etc...) and point the Time Machine to use that section, and then switch to a new partition when putting in a new media drive, or is that unnecessary and overcomplicating things?
    I'm assuming that a lot of people tend to have 1 external hard drive working as their media drive, and another running time machine and backing up whatever's on the media drive, and that these drives are the same size, and a swapped out for new ones simultaneously when full.  But if you are using a much larger backup drive, like a Drobo, then what do you do in the above situations?
    Basically, I want a simple solution that allows me to have a fast (firewire 800 max as I'm using an iMac atm), media drive attached and which is backed up to a drive with redundancy, like a Drobo, and where I can change out that media drive without a problem and changes made on it are mirrored on the backup drive (but where data doesn't get deleted on the backup drive if I need to change out the media drive).  My data needs are met with the above mentioned drives and I don't yet need to start investing in more advanced systems to deal with what I'm doing, I just need a solution that is simple, doesn't require excessive time spent tweaking and monitoring things, and where my data is safe if a drive fails.
    Finally, I'm guessing if the above scenario is possible then I'll be connecting the G-Tech to the Firewire 800 port and the Drobo to the USB, but I thought I'd ask whilst I'm here whether anybody knows if you can daisy chain the Drobo to the G-Tech via Firewire and still have it operating as a separate backup drive using Time Machine; if this method is possible would people reccomend it over using the iMac's USB port?
    Many thanks in advance for any help or suggestions people can offer, and sorry that was such a huge ramble.

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