I really appreciate the responses, that all make alot of sense...
But when comparing storage capability to a normal HDD, how does a SSD stack up.... Ex: some are going with a 160GB, but a standard drive might be 500GB capacity.... How does that collerate??
Not everyone stores hundreds of GBs on their internal HDD, and if one wants the faster SSD and does uses hundreds of GBs as data, one has to use an external HDD.
I got myself a FW800 enclosure for my Momentus HDD and it seems to work okay. I have still 70 capacity left on my SSD.
Otherwise I don't know really what you are getting at.
If one wants faster speed via an SSD, one has to make compromises, and for some that is not agreeable. I made the sacrifice of getting a much smaller internal SSD and can still live with it. Btw, there is always the
Optibay solution.
Btw, one can get a 512GB SSD, thus one can replace a 500GB HDD, though it costs a bit. I took the 60GB version as it was available (I don't shop online) and it was a good and fair price.