Comment Re:How about transfer rate and reliability? (Score 1) 215
Not my experience (thus far).
I've had multiple 500-1TB drives fail (bad sectors and reallocations) in the last 4 years while my SSD (OCZ) is still kicking even if it spent half its life in a XP machine without any TRIM support. The spinning drives were Seagates and WD Greens.
Last summer I dismantled a whole bunch of HDDs for recycling, and you can see modern drives are cheaply built (no dessicant cartridge, less filtering and other stuff). That's the price to pay for the capacity race.