[mdlug] MSI Wind SSD Upgrade Question

[Brandon]

Hi everyone,

I have two MSI Wind U100 Netbooks that I'm considering upgrading with SSD
drives and I wanted to know if I would see a significant performance
improvement or if I shouldn't waste the money. The specs are below and both
units have been upgraded to 2GB of RAM.

Processor 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 Memory 1GB DDR2 SDRAM Hard drive 80GB,
5400rpm Chipset Mobile Intel 945 Express Graphics Intel GMA950 Operating
System Windows XP Home Edition SP3 Dimensions (width by depth) 10.2 x 7.3
inches Thickness 1.0 to 1.6 inches Screen size (diagonal) 10 inches System
weight / Weight with AC adapter 2.5 / 3.3 pounds Category Netbook
Crucial's M100 series of SSDs seem to be in vogue for price and performance
and I'm considering a 256 GB drive for my home machine and a 64GB drive for
a parent's (web browsing only). I plan to install Ubuntu LTS on both
machines as Linux Mint doesn't seem to perform very well right now.

Does anyone have experience with this type of upgrade? Am I right in
thinking the hard drive is the bottleneck in performance or am I throwing
good money after bad and should I just replace the machines entirely?

Any feedback is appreciated!

--Brandon