2011 Mac Mini - Is SSD worth it?

Should speed up your boot system, program loading speeds, and system performance as well. SSD is supposed to be significantly faster than standard HDs. I don't own one, yet, so I can't comment factually. Sonically, I dunno.

My rationale is as follows. An SSD consumes considerably less power than a mechanical drive. In fact, in some instances it has been specified that an SSD consumes about 17% of the power that a mechanical drives does. Moreover, there isn't the big power drain with an SSD that occurs when the drive spins up. The former puts less burden on the power supply and the later leads to less noise generation. All in all, better sound.

Thanks everyone for your responses. I'm going to stick with the stock drive for now, and put the money I would have spent on getting the SSD into my DAC budget (more bang for the buck there, I think). I'll probably upgrade to an SSD later on, but at the moment it seems like a "nice-to-have" option.

I just put a SSD in my lappy and I get alot of freeze up's.

I didn't percieve any advantage having the music on an SSD vs HD in a PC setup; i didn't hear any in A/B testing. Having your OS drive be an SSD is where the gain is... less opportunity for jitter due to multitasking. I'd expect same in Mac environment