@Moon @chjara @ignaloidas i am used to speed of hdd and optimize things with ram where i can. it's not a problem for me. ssd's are tempting but they dont last as long and im notoriously bad with backups. also not really gradually failing, it tends to be more sudden with no warning signs which again with my shitty backup regiment sucks. and the thing where you have to care for it is beyond me, not having many writes and stuff. i use gentoo! programs cache things to disk! its gonna have a lot of writes! i torrent a lot of massive shit and delete later! i dont want to kill it so fast!

if they got up to a similar longevity with real world intensive use and writes then i would maybe consider it.
but i also am scared of change on even the simplest things and i kinda dont want to just because its new and scary lol