SSD drives had mixed reviews when they first came out, including doubts about its reliability. I would tend to think a drive that doesn't move internally would be more reliable than something that keeps spinning in circles.
From my experience, it's usually better and more cost effective to simply buy a new computer versus upgrading a part or two. For example, say you upgrade to a better faster hard drive for a 5 to 10 year old laptop. But the problem is that all the other innards of the laptop are still...well, old! It would not be cost effective to also swap out the many other old parts for new ones...at least, not for an old computer/laptop.
When I first started buying HD (High Definition) video cameras several years ago, it was great shooting in 1080 high def motion. But when I tried copying and playing back the same high def video onto my older laptops, guess what happened? They choked! The old laptops played back the video very choppy, probably due to old video graphics card and low video RAM memory, etc. I think there was another old laptop that wouldn't play the high-def video at all. Simply refused to.
That's when I realized I had to buy new laptops...so I did. All my new Windows laptops bought within the last couple years can play back high def 1080 videos with no problem.
I also had to toss (donate) my old netbooks, as those things were pathetically sloooooow. I mean dang sloooooooooow! The netbooks back then had an intriguing entry level price between $200 to $400 years ago, but they cannot do any SERIOUS computing work. Just too freakin' slow. It's painful to watch the Windows hourglass just spinning trying to complete a task, it's like watching paint dry, haha!
Anyway, I will wait longer for SSD drives to get to 1 Terabyte and larger, plus at an attractive price point for me to be interested. Moore's Law is always in your favor when it comes to consumer electronics.
