MonkeH

We use deepfreeze and found its excellent - one of our most important tools. It can be set to thaw machines for updates which helps with your patching policy. Sometimes it can double the time taken to do a simple task like re-adding a machine to the domain as you have to thaw it first and reboot - but its a small price to pay to keep the machines in a set state for the 95% of the time you need them to be. Overall a great time saver and quite reliable although the console can be a little buggy at times. 9/10

Solid state is more usefull for extreme field conditions than performance, and they shouldn't be used for applications where a lot of swapping is required as they have a limited life on writes. If you want performance, look at a SAN/virtualisation solution.