My friend is asking me to build him a pc with Ubuntu and he would like one of these OCZ Vertex 30GB 2.5IN SATA 2 Solid State Disk for root partition .

Does anyone have any tips or tricks or experiences with these new SSD things ?

So far these are the specs plus SSD for root :
ASUS Crosshair III Formula AMD790FX Socket AM3 Mainboard, 4xDDR3-1600, 2xPCI-Ex16 2.0 CrossfireX, 3xPCI-Ex1, 1xPCI, 2xEIDE, 5xSATA RAID, 1xeSATA, 8Ch Audio, Gigabit LAN, 12xUSB2, 2xFirewire, 5200 HT FSB, ATX
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Deneb Quad Core Socket AM3 CPU, 3.4GHz 4x512KB L2, 6MB L3, 4000H/T, 45nm, 140w - Black Edition
VIDEO CARD
MSI GeForce N260GTX TwinFrozr OC 896MB DDR3 PCI-Ex16 v2.0 Graphics Card - Dual DVI, HDTV, GPU - 655Mhz, MemClk - 2100Mhz 223
RAM DDR3-1666
Patriot Sector 5 Series 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-10666 1333Mhz DDR3 Memory Kit - Dual Channel optimized w/ Heatspreaders - CL9-9-9-24
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HARD DRIVES
Western Digital 640GB Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA300 Hard Drive - 32MB Buffer
DVD DRIVE
pioneer 22x SATA Dual Layer Labelflash DVD+/-RW - Black
CASE
Cooler Master HAF922 Black Full Tower ATX Case
POWER SUPPLY
Seasonic Energy Plus 850w ATX Active 80+ PFC Power Supply

This should be his workhorse PC for office and design studio . He is a jewelry designer and a hobyist photograper/graphic designer .

All these are locally available and we should be able to get them tomorrow except SSD which should be ordered from out of town .