[Marsdy]

I've been using a OWC SSD in a Westmere 6 Core for nearly three months now.

It's just streaming samples all day so the write degradation issue isn't an issue! I think that may be less of a problem now SSDs are fully supported by OSX?

Anyways, the performance is blistering. Moving from a 2008 Mac Pro/WD Velociraptor drive to the Westmere/SSD, my Kontakt polyphony count has at least quadrupled. I'm now getting better performance out of one Westmere Mac than I was with the 2008 Mac Pro and four PCs running as sample slaves. I'm sure the SSD drive has a LOT to do with that.

I'm sure you knew this but when I looked into which SSD to get, the Apple SSD did not perform well compared to the competition.