What is the consensus on 13" MacBook Pro's and SSD drives?

"AFAIK, Apple's SSD are manufactured by Toshiba, they're no match for high-end aftermarket products such as Intel X-25E, Kingston's E-Series or OCZ Vertex.

SSDs are more reliable and robust than platter hard disk drives as they don't have any moving parts.

The performance of a SSD (even a mediocre one) beats that of the best platter hard disk drives hands down.

And yes, they boost the performance of everything that involves disk operations, even with virtual machines."

"I've done the following :

I've bought a 13"" Mac Book Pro (basic configuration) and I've changed the shipped in HDD with an Intel SSD X25 !

After 5 months running my Mac with this config, I can conclude on the following :

The speed performance is big but not as big I expected. The boot time is lightning fast and I can use file vault without seeing any slow down.
I've heard a lot of complains about SSD (not so reliable ...), mine works like a charm
The battery life is better (the power consumed by an SSD is negligible)
An aspect I didn't expected is the NOISE ! It's such a pleasure to not listen the plates rotating.

From my point of view, it's a good idea to have an SSD drive into its mobile computer if you don't need large disk space (mine is 160 GB)"