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It's a matter of working style - the ease of use - a balance of performance and storage usage. Currently, my C: drive has about 200 GB used, and my H: drive has about 1.2TB used - mostly video and photos.
I do appreciate what you are doing. I do get it. However, I'm more interested in convenience than you are. When I'm editing HD video, an SSD would not give me that much. The real work is rendering, which is CPU intensive. My electromechanical spinners never break a sweat. My biggest problem is keeping the chips cool.
The business with the Z68 chip-set and the SSD cache is an Intel thing to bridge the gap between HDD and SSD by providing a good sized most-used cache for the HDD in hardware. It does cut boot up time in half and the often used applications jump to life very quickly, just like it would with a full SSD, but with a 2TB capacity, in my case. Since this is a dedicated HTPC, it works out pretty well for way less money than full SSD.
It won't be long for SSDs to be the normal type of mass storage, with electromechanical HDD just something you could tell your grandchildren about. Then we'll be debating the virtues of biological computers verses photon based machines.
Bye.