Yeah, I appreciate your opinion. I was looking into getting an SSD a few months ago but I had to spend the money on something else and a couple of friends have had bad experiences since with premature wear (one friend of mine who produces music wore out a RAID 0 of 2 SSDs in just over a year).

I'm also concerned about secure deletion on SSDs. I've read that they support the ATA Secure Erase command but I'm not sure how it works exactly and how much wear it causes to securely wipe a drive.