Compared to a Velociraptor
A lot of the problems have been cleared up, SSD's have been developing rather quickly :3
I heard that the Intel SSDs perform worse when they are nearly full. If you could test that
SaintK it would satisfy my curiosity. Also this benchmark shows read performance only, I doubt any HDD can beat you at access.
Quick development it may be(before X-25 I trusted no SSD, and after X-25 I trust no other SSD) but no matter how quick, TIME itself is the main variable, so I think there's a point where you must let time decide if a product is (was) good. SSD took the lead over any HDD out there in terms of performance, but now the second half of the race started, where reliability and stability are the prize and this race will take a long time to produce results.
There are other factors that will decide the future as well, like file systems ( i herd NTFS is crap
) or data protection (maybe SSDs with raid 1 built-in; disks are getting bigger so at some point we won't be able to afford losing a disk) or simply another invention.
Meanwhile, Maaaaster
Lard , I share thy suspicion.