No SSD's or..

Question

Here, on the forum the SSD is no go, no benefits to PREpro or AE, and I get why.
Now via Twitter I get this Adobe tweet about the benefits of SSD to us..
http://adobe.ly/qEIvrZ http://fb.me/1cqcfMA5o
What your opinion?
I think, it's the same HP, Intel, Adobe deal like always.. If right, i feel sorry for the customers who aren't diving in this great forum for a few hours.

Answer 1

Harm,
Not that I have deep pockets, but I am getting a business lease for my new system, so I can push the limits of certain items to get optimal performance in an acceptable budget limit. It comes pretty close to your ideal solution... hehehe
I just got off the phone a few minutes ago with my system integrator, and this is what we etched out just now (just before seeing your post):
C: 1x OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB, for OS, programs AND pagefile, on a PCIe x4 card
D: 1x Corsair Force Series GT 60GB, for cache, on SATA III on-board
E: 1x Corsair Force Series GT 60GB, for scratch, on SATA III on-board
F: 16x 7200RPM Seagate SV35 series 1TB 32MB in RAID3 (or maybe RAID30?) with hot spare, for everything else, on Areca 1880ix-16/4GB
He has built many systems using separate disks for cache and scratch. And he found that it was the best combo for a performance tuned editing rigs. Although he did say conventional HDDs would do for the task, considering the access type and random nature of the read/writes of these functions, lower cost, small capacity SSDs work nicely, especially if you have PPro, AE and PS opened and working at the same time. I decided to spend a bit more to get GTs instead of "conventional" "slower" SSDs to get better performance... just in case. But that was a personal choice with no basis on tested systems. I admit the RevoDrive is overkill for an OS and app drive, but that's a small birthday present I'm treating myself to. But since I'm putting the pagefile on it, and needed the 2 on-board SATA IIIs for the cache and scratch disks, I imagine pagefile access won't ever be an issue at 1500MBps.
I do however have a limit of 14x 3.5" drives in the Lian-Li PC-V2120 (with a 4-in-3 cage, and 2 optical drives). But since I don't have an HPTX motherboard in a HPTX case, I'm hoping to rig in the 2 remaining 3.5" HDDs next to the 2x 2.5" mounts on the PSU separator plate. I'd like to find an alternative case with more drive space, but they are hard to find (aside from the ridiculously expensive, but very nice "Extended Ascension" custom case from Mountain Mod).
My system integrator suggests a little know secret about the SV35 series of Seagate drives. They are enterprise class, RAIDable, rated 24/7 for multiple streams of HD surveillance video recording and playback per drive. If they can do that, they must surely be worthy drives in a RAID for an editing rig? They are robust, have a 5 year warranty, and a lot less costly then the classic enterprise class HDDs. Costs about $68 for 1TB 32MB SATA III per disk from my vendor.  Any thoughts on this series of drives?