Does anyone have any experience with SSD drives.....

[HopeHoops]

6. SSD's are best for the 5 1/2" screen minis, mostly for weight. They will take over physical drives.

To put it in perspective, your 64GB drive up against my C=64 with 64K of memory (SSD, if you will) and an external 5 1/4" floppy that held a whopping 156K. Yeah, seems obsolete, but the fucker still works, still comes on and IS on immediately (no boot).

My HP Linux mini came with Ubuntu pre-installed on an 24GB SSD drive. I hold it in one hand and type with the other when I'm in bed holding it over my head. You can't even bother with price/volume on SSD/SATA drives. It's not just apples and oranges here. We're not even in the same orchard.

SSD will win out over time. Thumb drives are perhaps the largest driving force for that. Physical drives eat a lot of power, are slow (relatively speaking), and far more prone to damage if you drop them. SSD drives have a "meh" attitude about being dropped. They cost more now, but you usually don't need as much if you think about what you are using them for.

Good luck!

Tom