That may fit you, but what about if your data accesses are mostly random? Or spaced out in such a way that you have to keep waiting for drives to spin up, costing you valuable time? SSDs trump even rust RAIDs in both those departments since solid state drives don't have to wait for things to spin up.
They may take longer to spin up... But I can fit at least 8TB of rust in my laptop, maybe 12 if I convert my DVD bay to a HDD bay (based on 4tb being the largest I've seen in 2.5 hd's to date). I'd need to build a mansion to get that much data space with SSD.
As the previous poster said, your needs are not mine. You need a teency bit of data really really quickly, I need to have tons of stuff archived which might not be touched for years at a time. When the data has been waiting 5 years to be accessed, what's a 5-second spin-up time matter?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
