“Solid state will eventually rule, but when?”
From what I understand, SSD drives corrupt easily. Until that ‘glitch’ is fixed then we are stuck with electro-mechanical drives.
Take a look at the current Mac notebook line. They all have SSDs, except for the 13" MBP, which comes with either a 5400-rpm hard drive or a 512gb SSD.
If the SSD write-endurance glitch were still an issue, I highly doubt Apple would be converting their product line to SSDs.
Recently, while browsing in the local Apple Store, I timed a reboot of a MacBook Air with a 1.8ghz processor and an SSD vs a MacBook Pro with a 2.5ghz processor and a hard drive. The MacBook Air was about four times as fast from reboot to usable desktop.
I am using Windows 8.1 on an SSD. Love it. Best computer experience I have ever had, period, except for the Windows 8.1 part.
I probably won’t remember to catch back up with you if it corrupts.
But so far, I am thrilled.