SATAN disc
The joke is on you: these drives were designed for Windows '95: enough capacity for Joe's porn videos, just fast enough to play video and the reliability of a politician. Enterprise disc drives don't come with rate limits, are fast and the failure rate is ten times lower.
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/enterprise-performance-savvio-fam/enterprise-performance-15k-hdd/ent-perf-15k-5/en-us/docs/100748152b.pdf
Come to think of it: if discs are made with SSD-like lifetime limitations, that must mean the manufacturer put an SSD into the box as cache.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
