Maybe these are stupid questions but I should ask anyway, I think must people agree that SSD are a good investment for programming, although this question is two years old it has a lot of up votes. My laptop is getting stuck when I open a lot of programs, photoshop (taking 2GB RAM), visual studio (500MB RAM) and others... Firefox for example (500 MB RAM), sometimes I have 100MB free of my 4GB RAM memory and 4Gb page file used. That's why I am really thinking in buying an SSD, seems that hard drive is a bottle neck.
My questions is, since SSD are degraded with writes, should I put my solution on the SSD or in an external hard drive? Will Visual Studio benefit putting the data on an external hard drive? I am sure that must of you use SSD, how do you use it?
Edit
Seems the short answer is put everything in the SSD and ensure having Trim technology?