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1. Don't read more into the SSD than there is. It is a normal Sata drive as far as the system is concerned - and of course it is bootable.
2. The 6GB discussion is a red herring. pparks is right. The SSD average transfer rate is 200MB/sec = about 2GB/sec. You are well served with the current 3GB bus.
3. TRIM is nice for write speed, but the system does not "write" that much. That is more important for moving large data files around - but we are not there yet due to the price of the SSDs. I have a 1st generation Intel on this system and it performs very well. 90% of the systems activities are reads - and even there the transfer time is of minor interest because the system reads are typically for small amounts of data. What makes the difference is the access time (0.1ms or less versus typically 17ms for a rotating disk).