Microsoft Outlook 2007 slow on a SSD drive

We had a user experiencing frequent pauses in Outlook 2007, he was running a Dell D630 with a 36GB SSD, one of the first ones offered by Dell.

This seems to be a known problem to both Dell and Microsoft. I have found a couple of interesting articles relating to this (it probably applies to Outlook 2003 as well).

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=55FD454EEE3ECF4BE040AE0AB7E14D54&doclang=en&cs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226

The new Dell E4200's seem to be less affected, however this could be down to the users having smaller .ost files.