Thinking otherwise is counter-productive.

I have seen SSDs fail too often to use them for anything but read-only storage.
I have gone back to HDDs simply because they are more reliable and lasts 10 times longer.
An SSD in a desktop computer lasts for max 2 years, and if you power it off while it is working, then it is a sure way to kill the entire drive or at least all the data on it.

SSDs are great toys, but never use them for anything other than read-only data.

Tyhmä ärsyttävää poliittinen korrektius saa sinut tuhlaa aikaa typeriä asioita
- Sinun pitäisi olla onnellinen, että voit lukea sitä ollenkaan!

We are openly breaking the law, and you must drag us to court, before we change that. It's just because we like your money. Ethics is a foreign word, that we see as a limitation to reaching our goal of making money in every way conceivable.

Our country have outsourced the space programme to either
* Cartoonists ( Denmark goes to Saturn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv-LlRsdE4 )
* Private entrepeneurs ( http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HueHF9pECI )
And with a population of approx 5 million people, we don't have enough tax money for that sort of thing.

I just bought one on 60 gigs for approx 300$. I went for the fastest I could find - a whopping > 200 MB/sec. Beats my HDD-stripe. My SuSE linux boots from GRUB to desktop in less than 5 seconds, including all the init-scripts for vmware and mysql and you-name-it. I can now feel how fast my computer really is - now that I don't have to wait for this antique HDD anymore. Performance is incredible. I can only recommend spending the (rather large amount of) money, it's a mind-changing experience. From now on, I regard hard drives as an antique medium, which is good for storing lots of data, but not for installing operating systems. btw: All this defrag speak - it always helps, because there are still read-ahead and similar algorithms, which perform better, when the drive is defragged.

I do not keep my CD's in "ideal storage conditions". They are in my home, with varying temperatures and humidity. None of the more than 5 year old CD's can be read. Thus a CD-R is a null device. I threw them all out and got some shelf space back. Memory sticks nowadays have more capacity than CD-R's, even DVD's, so why bother with this unpractical and unreliable medium?