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SSD drives are great - but when they drop their bundle they do so in style ... an old mechanical drive if a control board failed etc you could find a like model and swap components to get the data off - SSD's you're much more dependent on backups. Having said that if you put a pair in and mirror, more often than not you'll have a backup in the event of a failure.
They're soooooooo much faster it's becoming a must have IMO.
I'm also pretty confident the latest platter drives are a case of engineered to cost/fail - if you pick one up they're a fraction of the weight of previous drives (plastic bodies etc, cheap cost of manufacture = decreased lifetime).
If you purchase high reliability and high speed server drives (mechanical) they're like bricks in comparison, so the cuts are coming from somewhere!
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