why are hard drives so expensive?????

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SSD are fast but they do have a couple of drawbacks. One, it is easier to currupt them and the other is if currupted some drives then show a reduced capacity after recovering from such curruption.
 
Thats what I do with my Raptor. I have a 300gb 10,000 rpm drive for my OS, and two 2 TB drives for files.