Thanks, I like the GUI. Seems pretty good so far aside from a random crashes. Nice that when the GUI craps the bed the server keeps running.One of the nice things about transmission other than the low resource usage is its client/server model, so there are loads of third-party GUIs available. If you're using windows you might find this one nicer than the bundled one.
Now that I have already purchased the SSD's I will check what the actual IO is when I start everything back up. Would have been smart to do before I spent more $...Since you're on a relatively tight budget ($300 doesn't buy you much in the way of SSDs) I reckon your first step should be - assuming windows - set up a few quick perfmon traces to see what your actual IO load is like under various scenarios to see what sort of IO you're actually going to want to plan for. For example, back when I was running off a single hard drive most of the IO from my torrent dir came from random reads as the torrent seeded - the write IO at the start was mostly sequential thanks to the caching settings.
I like having more than I will ever need especially compared to the alternative. I didn't break the bank so I am just hoping they are ok and not in the process of dying when I receive them.But if you've bought some S3700's then you're probably going to have way more IO than you'll ever need...